Famous Personalities Born In August - 29

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

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

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  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on August - 29.   

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

1686  Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer was born on this day in history.   

1694  Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715) was born on this day in history.   

1725  Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767) was born on August - 29.   

1728  On this day in history birth of maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)   

1756  On this day in history birth of heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)   

1756  Jan Åšniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830) was born on this day in history.   

1773  On this day in history birth of raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music)   

1777  Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853) was born on August - 29.   

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

1805  Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872) was born on this day in history.   

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

1809  On this day in history birth of oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)   

1811  Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA was born on this day in history.   

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

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  On this day in history birth of edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)   

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 August - 29.   

1855  On this day in history birth of emil Pauer, composer   

1857  On August - 29 birth of sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)   

1862  P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911) was born on August - 29.   

1862  Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928) was born on this day in history.   

1871  On August - 29 birth of albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)   

1874  Walter Field was born on this day in history.   

1876  On this day in history 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  On August - 29 death of king Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)   

1395  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on August - 29.   

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

1523  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on this day in history.