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

1395  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on August - 29.   

1442  On August - 29 death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)   

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

1526  On August - 29 louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20   

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 this day in history.   

1653  Death of Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49 on August - 29.   

1657  On this day in history death of john Lilburne, English dissenter   

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

1738  On August - 29 georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81   

1758  On this day in history gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75   

1769  Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown) on August - 29.   

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

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

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

1821  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.   

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  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  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 August - 29.   

1893  On this day in history aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17]   

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

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

1910  On August - 29 allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies   

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

1918  Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

1921  On August - 29 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 this day in history birth of janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator   

1476  On August - 29 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  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on August - 29.   

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 August - 29.