This Day in History : [ 29 / Aug ]

Janus Pannonius Hungarian poet and translator born in azma Croatia (d. 1472)

Kan Motonobu Japanese painter (Kan school of painting) born in Kyoto Japan

Sassoferrato [Giovanni B Salvi] Italian painter (Madonna) born in Sassoferrato Marche Italy (d. 1685)

Jean-Baptiste Colbert French minister of Navy born in Reims France (d. 1683)

John Granville 1st Earl of Bath English royalist statesman (d. 1701)

Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel German composer born in Erfurt Germany (d. 1764)

Charles Townshend English politician 3rd Viscount of Townshend born in Raynham Hall Norfolk (d. 1767)

Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony Electress of Bavaria born in Dresden Castle Dresden Germany (d. 1797)

Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde Austrian field marshal and statesman born in Dresden Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1845)

Jan niadecki Polish mathematician and astronomer born in nin Poland (d. 1830)

Raphael G. Kiesewetter Austria musicologist (Arab Music) born in Holleschau Moravia Czech Republic (d. 1850)

Hyacinth [Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin] Founder of Sinology (d. 1853)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres French painter (Valpincon Bather) born in Montauban France (d. 1867)

Frederick Maurice English theologian of the Church of England born in Normanston Suffolk England (d. 1872)

Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch German politician and reformer born in Delitzsch Saxony (d. 1883)

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. American physician and author (Old Ironsides) born in Cambridge Massachusetts (d. 1894)

Juan Bautista Alberdi Argentina political theorist and writer (Crime of War) born in San Miguel de Tucumn Ro de la Plata (d. 1884)

Henry Bergh Founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) born in NYC New York (d. 1888)

Anna Ella Carroll American politician and civil war writer (Reconstruction) born in Pocomoke City Maryland (d. 1894)

Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet French anthropologist who was the first to organize and classify Stone Age cultures into a chronological sequence of epochs born in Meylan France (d. 1898)

Alfred Shaw English cricketer (seven Tests for England 1877-82) born in Burton Joyce Nottinghamshire England (d. 1907)

David B. Hill American politician and Governor of New York (1885-91) born in Montour Falls New York (d. 1910)

Edward Carpenter English poet and philosopher (Civilisation Its Cause and Cure) born in Hove Sussex England (d. 1929)

Titus van Asch van Wijck Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97) born in Utrecht Netherlands (d. 1902)

Sandford Schultz English cricketer born in Birkenhead Cheshire (d. 1937)

Andrew Fisher 5th Prime Minister of Australia (1908-09 1910-13 1914-15) born in Crosshouse Ayrshire Scotland (d. 1928)

Albert Lebrun President of France (1932-40) born in Mercy-le-Haut France (d. 1950)

Charles F. Kettering American inventor (auto self-starter) born in Loudenville Ohio (d. 1958)

Kim Gu President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (1939-48) born in Haeju Hwanghae Korea (d. 1949)

Dudley Pound British admiral of the fleet and 1st Sea Lord (Jutland WW II) born in Ventnor Isle of Wight England (d. 1943)

Marie-Louise Meilleur French-Canadian supercentenarian lived past 117 born in Kamouraska Quebec Canada (d. 1998)

Edvin Kallstenius Swedish composer and librarian born in Filipstad Sweden (d. 1967)

Valery-Nicolas Larbaud French novelist and translator (Enfantines) born in Vichy France (d. 1957)