Famous Deaths In August - 29

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

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

1093  On August - 29 death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)  

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  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on this day in history.  

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

1526  On August - 29 louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20  

1533  On this day in history 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.  

1653  On August - 29 death of gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49  

1657  Death of John Lilburne, English dissenter on August - 29.  

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

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

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

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 August - 29 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  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.  

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

1856  Death of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778) on August - 29.  

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

1865  John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54 on August - 29.  

1877  On this day in history brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies  

1889  Death of Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815) on August - 29.  

1891  On August - 29 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  Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies on this day in history.  

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

1910  Allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies on August - 29.  

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

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  On this day in history 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 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  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on August - 29.  

1619  On August - 29 birth of jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron  

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