Famous Deaths Happened In August - 29

0029  Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on August - 29.   

0886  On August - 29 basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies   

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on August - 29.   

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on August - 29.   

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

1442  On this day in history death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)   

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 this day in history.   

1533  Death of Atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors on August - 29.   

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

1653  On this day in history 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 August - 29.   

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

1758  On this day in history gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75   

1769  On August - 29 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 August - 29.   

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

1821  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on August - 29.   

1844  Death of Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762) on August - 29.   

1856  On August - 29 death of mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)   

1861  On August - 29 franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63   

1865  John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54 on August - 29.   

1877  Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies on August - 29.   

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  Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies on August - 29.   

1909  On August - 29 emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies   

1910  Allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)   

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 this day in history.   

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

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  On this day in history birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)   

1632  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on this day in history.