Famous Personalities Born In August - 29
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
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 Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on August - 29.
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 John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on August - 29.
1632 On August - 29 birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance
1686 On this day in history birth of wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer
1694 On this day in history birth of charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)
1725 Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767) was born on this day in history.
1728 On this day in history birth of maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)
1756 Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845) was born on August - 29.
1756 Jan Åšniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830) was born on August - 29.
1773 On August - 29 birth of raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music)
1777 On August - 29 birth of nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
1780 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather) was born on this day in history.
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 On August - 29 birth of oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)
1811 On August - 29 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 Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler) was born on this day in history.
1843 On this day in history birth of david B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
1844 Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929) was born on August - 29.
1849 On this day in history birth of titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97)
1851 On August - 29 birth of willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer
1855 On this day in history birth of emil Pauer, composer
1857 Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937) was born on August - 29.
1862 On August - 29 birth of p M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911)
1862 Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928) was born on this day in history.
1871 On this day in history birth of albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
1874 Walter Field was born on this day in history.
1876 Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter) was born on this day in history.