Famous Deaths In August - 29
Saturday, 07 September 2024
0029 On August - 29 death of john the Baptist, beheaded
0886 Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on this day in history.
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 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 August - 29.
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 this day in history.
1653 Death of Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49 on August - 29.
1657 On August - 29 death of john Lilburne, English dissenter
1712 Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63 on this day in history.
1738 Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.
1758 Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75 on this day in history.
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 August - 29.
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 this day in history.
1821 Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on August - 29.
1844 On this day in history death of edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
1856 On August - 29 death of mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
1861 Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.
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 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17] on this day in history.
1904 On this day in history murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies
1909 Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies on August - 29.
1910 On this day in history allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies
1914 ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle on this day in history.
1918 On August - 29 max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51
1921 On this day in history joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83
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