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  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 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  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)  

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1653  On this day in history death of gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49  

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

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

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 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 August - 29.  

1844  On August - 29 death of edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)  

1856  On August - 29 death of mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)  

1861  On August - 29 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  Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies on this day in history.  

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

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

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

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

1918  On August - 29 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  On this day in history birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)  

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1628  John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on August - 29.  

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