Famous Deaths In August - 29

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

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

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

1123  On this day in history death of king Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)  

1395  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on this day in history.  

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

1523  On this day in history ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35  

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on this day in history.  

1533  On August - 29 death of atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors  

1542  Death of Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516) on this day in history.  

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1653  Death of Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49 on August - 29.  

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  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  On August - 29 death of jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)  

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

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

1821  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)  

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 August - 29.  

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

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

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  Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51 on this day in history.  

1921  On this day in history joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83  

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1387  On August - 29 birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)  

1434  On this day in history birth of janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator  

1476  On August - 29 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  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  On August - 29 birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance