Famous Deaths In August - 29

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

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on August - 29.   

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  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on August - 29.   

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

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

1526  On this day in history 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 August - 29.   

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

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

1738  Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81 on August - 29.   

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

1865  John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54 on August - 29.   

1877  Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies on August - 29.   

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

1891  On this day in history 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 this day in history murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies   

1909  On this day in history emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies   

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

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

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

1561  On August - 29 birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)   

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