Famous Deaths Happened In August - 29

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

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on August - 29.   

1093  On this day in history death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)   

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on August - 29.   

1395  On this day in history 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  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.   

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

1657  On August - 29 death of john Lilburne, English dissenter   

1712  On this day in history gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63   

1738  Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81 on August - 29.   

1758  On this day in history gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75   

1769  On this day in history edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)   

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 August - 29.   

1861  On August - 29 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  Death of Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844) on this day in history.   

1893  On this day in history 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  On August - 29 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  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  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on August - 29.   

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

1609  On this day in history 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  On August - 29 birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance