Famous Deaths In August - 29

0029  On this day in history death of john the Baptist, beheaded   

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 August - 29 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 August - 29 death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)   

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 this day in history.   

1533  On this day in history death of atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors   

1542  Death of Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516) on August - 29.   

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

1657  Death of John Lilburne, English dissenter on August - 29.   

1712  On August - 29 gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63   

1738  On August - 29 georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81   

1758  Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75 on August - 29.   

1769  Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown) on August - 29.   

1780  On this day in history death of jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)   

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 August - 29.   

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

1844  On August - 29 death of edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)   

1856  Death of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778) on this day in history.   

1861  On this day in history franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63   

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  On August - 29 death of pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)   

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 August - 29 allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies   

1914  On August - 29 ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle   

1918  Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

1921  Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83 on August - 29.   

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1387  Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) was born on August - 29.   

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  On this day in history birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)   

1609  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on this day in history.   

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  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on this day in history.