Famous Deaths In August - 29
Friday, 22 September 2023
0029 On this day in history death of john the Baptist, beheaded
0886 Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on this day in history.
1093 Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on this day in history.
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 Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on this day in history.
1523 Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on this day in history.
1526 Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on this day in history.
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.
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 Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63 on August - 29.
1738 Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81 on August - 29.
1758 On August - 29 gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75
1769 Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown) on this day in history.
1780 On this day in history death of jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
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 August - 29.
1844 On August - 29 death of edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
1856 On this day in history death of mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
1861 On this day in history franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63
1865 John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54 on August - 29.
1877 On this day in history brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies
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 this day in history.
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 Allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies on this day in history.
1914 ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle on August - 29.
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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