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  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 August - 29.   

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 August - 29.   

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

1542  On this day in history death of cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)   

1653  On August - 29 death of gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49   

1657  Death of John Lilburne, English dissenter on this day in history.   

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

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

1758  Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1769  On August - 29 edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)   

1780  Death of Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713) on August - 29.   

1782  On this day in history death of richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718)   

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

1821  On this day in history horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86   

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

1856  Death of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778) on this day in history.   

1861  Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

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

1877  On this day in history brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies   

1889  Death of Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815) on August - 29.   

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 this day in history.   

1904  Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies on August - 29.   

1909  Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies on this day in history.   

1910  Allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies on this day in history.   

1914  On this day in history ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle   

1918  Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51 on August - 29.   

1921  On this day in history joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83   

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1387  On August - 29 birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)   

1434  On August - 29 birth of janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator   

1476  On this day in history birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on this day in history.   

1609  On August - 29 birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)   

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  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on this day in history.