Famous Deaths In August - 29

0029  Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on this day in history.  

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on this day in history.  

1093  On this day in history death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)  

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on this day in history.  

1395  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on August - 29.  

1442  On August - 29 death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)  

1523  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on August - 29.  

1526  On August - 29 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 this day in history.  

1542  On August - 29 death of cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)  

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1653  Death of Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49 on this day in history.  

1657  Death of John Lilburne, English dissenter on this day in history.  

1712  On this day in history gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63  

1738  On August - 29 georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81  

1758  On this day in history gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75  

1769  On August - 29 edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)  

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

1782  Death of Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718) on August - 29.  

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

1821  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on August - 29.  

1844  Death of Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762) on this day in history.  

1856  Death of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778) on this day in history.  

1861  On this day in history franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63  

1865  John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54 on this day in history.  

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

1889  Death of Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815) on this day in history.  

1891  Death of Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844) on August - 29.  

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

1904  On August - 29 murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies  

1909  Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies on August - 29.  

1910  On this day in history allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies  

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

1918  On this day in history max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51  

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 August - 29.  

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on August - 29.  

1476  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on August - 29.  

1561  On August - 29 birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)  

1609  On August - 29 birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)  

1619  On this day in history birth of jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron  

1628  John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on this day in history.  

1632  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on August - 29.