Famous Deaths Happened In August - 29

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

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on August - 29.   

1093  On August - 29 death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)   

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

1395  On August - 29 death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)   

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on this day in history.   

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

1526  On August - 29 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  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  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  Death of Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713) on this day in history.   

1782  Death of Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718) on this day in history.   

1799  On this day in history pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71   

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

1844  Death of Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762) on this day in history.   

1856  On this day in history death of mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)   

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  Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies on this day in history.   

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

1891  Death of Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844) on August - 29.   

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  On this day in history emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies   

1910  Allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies on August - 29.   

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

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 August - 29.   

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 this day in history.   

1609  On August - 29 birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)   

1619  On August - 29 birth of jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron   

1628  John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on this day in history.   

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