Famous Deaths In August - 29

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

0886  On this day in history 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 August - 29 death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)  

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on this day in history.  

1523  On August - 29 ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35  

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 August - 29.  

1712  Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63 on this day in history.  

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 August - 29 death of richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718)  

1799  On August - 29 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  On August - 29 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 this day in history.  

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

1865  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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  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 August - 29 allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies  

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

1918  On August - 29 max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51  

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

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

1632  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on this day in history.