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 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  On August - 29 death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)   

1523  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on August - 29.   

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on this day in history.   

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  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 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  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 this day in history.   

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

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

1844  On this day in history death of edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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 August - 29.   

1904  On August - 29 murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies   

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

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  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  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  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