Famous Deaths Happened In August - 29

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

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on this day in history.   

1093  On this day in history 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  On August - 29 death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)   

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

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on August - 29.   

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  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 August - 29.   

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

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

1782  On this day in history 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  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 August - 29.   

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

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

1877  On August - 29 brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies   

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

1891  On August - 29 death of pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)   

1893  Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17] on this day in history.   

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 August - 29.   

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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  On August - 29 birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)   

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  On August - 29 birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)   

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