Famous Birthdays In August - 29

1387  On this day in history birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)   

1434  On this day in history 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 August - 29.   

1609  On this day in history birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)   

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  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on August - 29.   

1686  Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer was born on this day in history.   

1694  Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715) was born on this day in history.   

1725  On this day in history birth of charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)   

1728  Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797) was born on August - 29.   

1756  On August - 29 birth of heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)   

1756  Jan Åšniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830) was born on August - 29.   

1773  Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music) was born on August - 29.   

1777  Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853) was born on this day in history.   

1780  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather) was born on August - 29.   

1805  Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872) was born on this day in history.   

1808  On August - 29 birth of hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer   

1809  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides) was born on August - 29.   

1811  On this day in history birth of henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA   

1815  Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction) was born on this day in history.   

1842  On this day in history birth of alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler)   

1843  David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910) was born on August - 29.   

1844  On this day in history birth of edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)   

1849  On this day in history birth of titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97)   

1851  Willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer was born on August - 29.   

1855  On this day in history birth of emil Pauer, composer   

1857  On August - 29 birth of sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)   

1862  P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911) was born on August - 29.   

1862  Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928) was born on August - 29.   

1871  On August - 29 birth of albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)   

1874  Walter Field was born on August - 29.   

1876  On this day in history birth of charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)   

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0029  Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on August - 29.   

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

1395  On this day in history death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)   

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on August - 29.   

1523  On this day in history ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35   

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on this day in history.