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    This Is HISTORY | Birthdays

    May 29 1594

    Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim Bavarian general (d. 1632)

    May 29 1627

    Anne ML of Orleans duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle)

    May 29 1673

    Cornelis van Bijnkershoek lawyerpresident of High Council

    May 29 1675

    Humphry Ditton English mathematician (d. 1715)

    May 29 1722

    James FitzGerald 1st Duke of Leinster Irish politician (d. 1773)

    May 29 1730

    William Jackson [Jackson of Exeter] English composer and organist born in Exeter England (d. 1803)

    May 29 1731

    Orazio Mei Italian composer born in Pisa (d. 1788)

    May 29 1794

    Johann Heinrich von Mdler German astronomer (d. 1874)

    May 29 1810

    Erasmus Darwin Keyes American banker businessman and Major General (Union Army) born in Brinfield Massachusetts (d. 1895)

    May 29 1810

    Juan B Alberdi [Figarillo] Argentina politicianwriter

    May 29 1810

    Solomon Meredith American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Guilford County North Carolina (d. 1875)

    May 29 1824

    Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox Major General (Confederate Army)

    May 29 1825

    David Bell Birney American businessman lawyer and Major General (Union Army) born in Huntsville Alabama (d. 1864)

    May 29 1826

    Ebenezer Butterick inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)

    May 29 1827

    Reuben Lindsay Walker Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1890)

    May 29 1837

    Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann Dutch ministerparty leader (CHU)

    May 29 1838

    Nat Thompson Australian cricket batsman (2 Tests 1st batsman dismissed in first Test match 1877) born in Sydney NSW (d. 1896)

    May 29 1839

    Ned Gregory Australian cricket batsman (1 Test first recognised Test in 1877) born in Sydney New South Wales (d. 1899)

    May 29 1840

    Hans Makart Austrian painter (Plague in Florenz)

    May 29 1841

    Sylvester Magee last living American slave and oldest person who ever lived (d. 1971)

    May 29 1846

    Albert Gyorgy earl Apponyi Hungarian minister of Education

    May 29 1851

    Leon VA Bourgeois French premier (1895-96 Nobel 1920)

    May 29 1860

    Isaac Albniz Spanish pianist and composer (Suite espaola Tango in D) born in Camprodon Spain (d. 1909)

    May 29 1874

    G. K. Chesterton [Gilbert Keith] English writer (Man Who Made Gold) born in London England

    May 29 1876

    Jan Ingenhoven Dutch composer and conductor born in Breda (d. 1951)

    May 29 1880

    Oswald Spengler German philosopher (Decline of West)

    May 29 1885

    Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich British astronomer (theory of relativity)

    May 29 1892

    Alfonsina Storni Argentine poet (La inquietud del rosal)

    May 29 1894

    Beatrice Lillie Canadian comedian and actress (Around World in 80 Days) born in Toronto Ontario (d. 1989)

    May 29 1894

    Josef von Sternberg Austrian director (Der blaue Engel)

    May 29 1897

    Erich Wolfgang Korngold Austrian-American movie composer (Violanta The Adventures of Robin Hood) born in Brnn Austria-Hungary (d. 1959)

    May 29 1904

    Ronald Russell British journalist author and Conservative politician born in Seahouses Northumberland (d. 1974)

    May 29 1905

    Sebastian Shaw British actor director playwright and poet (High Season Ace of Spades Caste) born in Holt England (d. 1994)

    HISTORICAL EVENTS | ON THIS DAY

    May 29 1138 Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) submits himself to Pope Innocentius II

    May 29 1167 Battle of Monte Porzio - A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel

    May 29 1328 French King Philip VI Valois crowned at the Cathedral in Reims France

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