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  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on this day in history.   

1123  On August - 29 death of king Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)   

1395  On this day in history death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)   

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on August - 29.   

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   

1533  On August - 29 death of atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors   

1542  On this day in history death of cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)   

1653  Death of Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49 on this day in history.   

1657  On this day in history death of john Lilburne, English dissenter   

1712  On this day in history gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63   

1738  Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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

1769  On this day in history 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 August - 29.   

1821  On this day in history 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  Death of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778) on this day in history.   

1861  Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63 on August - 29.   

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 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 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  On this day in history allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies   

1914  ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle on this day in history.   

1918  On August - 29 max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51   

1921  On this day in history joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83   

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1387  Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) was born on this day in history.   

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on August - 29.   

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  On August - 29 birth of jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron   

1628  On August - 29 birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)   

1632  On this day in history birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance