Famous Deaths Happened In August - 29

0029  On August - 29 death of john the Baptist, beheaded   

0886  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1395  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1533  Death of Atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors on this day in history.   

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

1653  Death of Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49 on this day in history.   

1657  On this day in history death of john Lilburne, English dissenter   

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

1738  On this day in history georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81   

1758  Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1769  On August - 29 edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)   

1780  On August - 29 death of jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)   

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

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

1821  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.   

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

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

1861  Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1865  On August - 29 john Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54   

1877  On this day in history brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies   

1889  On August - 29 death of stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)   

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  On this day in history murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies   

1909  Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies on August - 29.   

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  Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

1921  Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83 on August - 29.   

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1387  Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) was born on this day in history.   

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on this day in history.   

1476  On this day in history birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on this day in history.   

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 August - 29.   

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.