Famous Deaths In August - 29
Friday, 26 July 2024
0029 Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on August - 29.
0886 Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on August - 29.
1093 Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on August - 29.
1123 On this day in history death of king Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)
1395 Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on this day in history.
1442 On this day in history 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 Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on this day in history.
1533 Death of Atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors on this day in history.
1542 Death of Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516) on this day in history.
1653 On this day in history death of gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49
1657 On August - 29 death of john Lilburne, English dissenter
1712 Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63 on August - 29.
1738 On this day in history georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81
1758 On this day in history gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75
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 Death of Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718) on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
1844 On this day in history death of edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
1856 On this day in history death of mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
1861 On this day in history franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63
1865 John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54 on August - 29.
1877 On August - 29 brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies
1889 On this day in history 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 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17] on August - 29.
1904 Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies on August - 29.
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 ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle on August - 29.
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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