Famous Deaths In August - 29

0029  On August - 29 death of john the Baptist, beheaded  

0886  On August - 29 basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies  

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on August - 29.  

1123  On August - 29 death of king Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)  

1395  On this day in history death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)  

1442  On this day in history death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)  

1523  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on this day in history.  

1526  On this day in history louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20  

1533  Death of Atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors on August - 29.  

1542  Death of Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516) on August - 29.  

1653  On this day in history death of gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49  

1657  On this day in history death of john Lilburne, English dissenter  

1712  On August - 29 gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63  

1738  On this day in history georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81  

1758  Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1769  Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown) on this day in history.  

1780  Death of Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713) on August - 29.  

1782  On this day in history death of richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718)  

1799  Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71 on this day in history.  

1821  On August - 29 horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86  

1844  On this day in history death of edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)  

1856  On August - 29 death of mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)  

1861  Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63 on August - 29.  

1865  On August - 29 john Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54  

1877  On August - 29 brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies  

1889  On August - 29 death of stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)  

1891  On August - 29 death of pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)  

1893  Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17] on this day in history.  

1904  Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies on August - 29.  

1909  On August - 29 emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies  

1910  On August - 29 allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies  

1914  ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle on this day in history.  

1918  Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51 on August - 29.  

1921  Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83 on this day in history.  

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1387  Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) was born on this day in history.  

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on this day in history.  

1476  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on this day in history.  

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on this day in history.  

1609  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on this day in history.  

1619  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on this day in history.  

1628  On this day in history birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)  

1632  On August - 29 birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance