Famous Deaths Happened In August - 29

0029  On this day in history death of john the Baptist, beheaded   

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

1093  On August - 29 death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)   

1123  On this day in history death of king Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)   

1395  On this day in history death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)   

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on this day in history.   

1523  On this day in history ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35   

1526  On August - 29 louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20   

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  On August - 29 death of gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49   

1657  On August - 29 death of john Lilburne, English dissenter   

1712  On August - 29 gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63   

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  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  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86 on August - 29.   

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  Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63 on August - 29.   

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 this day in history.   

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  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 this day in history.   

1909  On August - 29 emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies   

1910  Allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies on this day in history.   

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

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1387  On this day in history birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)   

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on August - 29.   

1476  On this day in history 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  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on this day in history.   

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 August - 29.   

1632  On this day in history birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance