Famous Deaths Happened In August - 29

0029  Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on this day in history.   

0886  On this day in history basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies   

1093  On this day in history death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)   

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  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  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 this day in history.   

1542  Death of Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516) on this day in history.   

1653  On August - 29 death of gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49   

1657  On this day in history 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 August - 29.   

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  On August - 29 death of jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)   

1782  On this day in history death of richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718)   

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

1821  On August - 29 horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86   

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  On this day in history franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63   

1865  On this day in history john Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54   

1877  On this day in history brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies   

1889  Death of Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815) on this day in history.   

1891  On this day in history death of pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)   

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

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  On this day in history ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle   

1918  Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51 on August - 29.   

1921  On this day in history 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  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on this day in history.   

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on August - 29.   

1609  On August - 29 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  On August - 29 birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)   

1632  On August - 29 birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance