Famous Deaths Happened In August - 29

0029  Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on August - 29.   

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on August - 29.   

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on this day in history.   

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on August - 29.   

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

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

1738  Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81 on August - 29.   

1758  On August - 29 gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75   

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

1780  On this day in history death of jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)   

1782  Death of Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1844  Death of Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762) on August - 29.   

1856  On this day in history 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  Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies on this day in history.   

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

1891  On this day in history death of pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)   

1893  On August - 29 aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17]   

1904  On this day in history murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies   

1909  On this day in history emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies   

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

1914  On August - 29 ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle   

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

1921  Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83 on August - 29.   

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

1434  On August - 29 birth of janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator   

1476  On this day in history birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on August - 29.   

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

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

1628  On August - 29 birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)   

1632  On this day in history birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance