Famous Deaths Happened In August - 29

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

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

1093  On this day in history 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  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  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on August - 29.   

1533  On this day in history death of atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors   

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  Death of John Lilburne, English dissenter on August - 29.   

1712  Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63 on August - 29.   

1738  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1780  On this day in history death of jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)   

1782  Death of Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718) on August - 29.   

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

1821  On this day in history horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86   

1844  On August - 29 death of edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)   

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

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

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 August - 29.   

1889  Death of Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815) on August - 29.   

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

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  Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies on this day in history.   

1910  On this day in history allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies   

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

1918  On this day in history max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51   

1921  On August - 29 joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83   

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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  On August - 29 birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

1561  On this day in history 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  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on this day in history.