Famous Deaths Happened In August - 29

0029  On August - 29 death of john the Baptist, beheaded   

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  On August - 29 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 August - 29 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 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 August - 29.   

1542  On August - 29 death of cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)   

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

1738  Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1758  Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

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 August - 29.   

1799  On August - 29 pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71   

1821  On this day in history horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86   

1844  Death of Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762) on this day in history.   

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

1861  Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

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

1891  Death of Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844) on August - 29.   

1893  On this day in history 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 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  On this day in history max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51   

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 August - 29.   

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

1476  On August - 29 birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

1561  On this day in history birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)   

1609  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on August - 29.   

1619  On this day in history 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