Famous Deaths In August - 29

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

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

1093  On August - 29 death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)  

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on this day in history.  

1395  On August - 29 death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)  

1442  On this day in history death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)  

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 August - 29.  

1533  Death of Atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors on August - 29.  

1542  Death of Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516) on August - 29.  

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

1738  On this day in history georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81  

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 August - 29 death of jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)  

1782  On August - 29 death of richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718)  

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

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 this day in history.  

1861  On August - 29 franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63  

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 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 August - 29 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 August - 29.  

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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1561  On August - 29 birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)  

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

1619  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on this day in history.  

1628  On August - 29 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