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    This Is HISTORY | Birthdays

    Aug 29 1434

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

    Aug 29 1476

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

    Aug 29 1609

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

    Aug 29 1619

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

    Aug 29 1628

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

    Aug 29 1686

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

    Aug 29 1725

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

    Aug 29 1728

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

    Aug 29 1756

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

    Aug 29 1756

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

    Aug 29 1773

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

    Aug 29 1777

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

    Aug 29 1780

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

    Aug 29 1805

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

    Aug 29 1808

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

    Aug 29 1809

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

    Aug 29 1810

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

    Aug 29 1811

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

    Aug 29 1815

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

    Aug 29 1821

    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)

    Aug 29 1842

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

    Aug 29 1843

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

    Aug 29 1844

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

    Aug 29 1849

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

    Aug 29 1857

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

    Aug 29 1862

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

    Aug 29 1871

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

    Aug 29 1876

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

    Aug 29 1876

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

    Aug 29 1877

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

    Aug 29 1880

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

    Aug 29 1881

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

    Aug 29 1881

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

    HISTORICAL EVENTS | ON THIS DAY

    Aug 29 1178 Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III

    Aug 29 1475 Treaty of Picquigny King Louis XI buys English contacts

    Aug 29 1484 Giovanni Battista Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII

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