Famous Deaths In August - 29

0029  On this day in history death of john the Baptist, beheaded  

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

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on this day in history.  

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  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on August - 29.  

1523  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on this day in history.  

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

1657  Death of John Lilburne, English dissenter on August - 29.  

1712  On August - 29 gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63  

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

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  Death of Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713) on this day in history.  

1782  Death of Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718) on this day in history.  

1799  Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71 on this day in history.  

1821  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on August - 29.  

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

1856  On this day in history death of mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)  

1861  Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63 on August - 29.  

1865  John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54 on this day in history.  

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  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  Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies on August - 29.  

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

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

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  Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) was born on August - 29.  

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  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  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