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 this day in history.   

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on this day in history.   

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 August - 29 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 August - 29 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  Death of John Lilburne, English dissenter on this day in history.   

1712  Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1780  Death of Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713) on August - 29.   

1782  On August - 29 death of richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718)   

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

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  On August - 29 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 this day in history emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies   

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

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

1918  Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51 on August - 29.   

1921  Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83 on this day in history.   

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1387  On August - 29 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 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  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 this day in history.   

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