Famous Deaths 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  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on August - 29.  

1123  On this day in history 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 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  Death of Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516) on this day in history.  

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1653  Death of Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49 on August - 29.  

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  Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75 on August - 29.  

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

1865  On August - 29 john Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54  

1877  On August - 29 brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies  

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 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  On this day in history emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies  

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

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

1918  On August - 29 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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

1632  On August - 29 birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance