Famous Personalities Born 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 August - 29 birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

1561  On August - 29 birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)   

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 August - 29.   

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  Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer was born on August - 29.   

1694  Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715) was born on August - 29.   

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  Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845) was born on August - 29.   

1756  On this day in history birth of jan Åšniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)   

1773  Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music) was born on this day in history.   

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

1780  On August - 29 birth of jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)   

1805  On August - 29 birth of frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)   

1808  Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer was born on this day in history.   

1809  On August - 29 birth of oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)   

1811  Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA was born on August - 29.   

1815  On this day in history birth of anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)   

1842  On August - 29 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  Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929) was born on this day in history.   

1849  Titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97) was born on August - 29.   

1851  Willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer was born on this day in history.   

1855  Emil Pauer, composer was born on this day in history.   

1857  On this day in history birth of sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)   

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 August - 29.   

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  On August - 29 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 August - 29 basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies   

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 August - 29.   

1395  On August - 29 death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)   

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on this day in history.   

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

1526  On this day in history louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20