What happened on August 29 ?

886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)

1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)

1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)

1435 - Isabeau de Bavière, wife of Charles VI of France (b. 1371)

1442 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)

1526 - King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b. 1506)

1533 - Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru

1542 - Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c.1516)

1657 - John Lilburne, English dissenter

1712 - Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)

1769 - Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)

1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)

1799 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)

1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)

1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)

1891 - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)

1904 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)

1930 - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)

1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)

1947 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)

1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)

1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)

1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)

1975 - Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)

1981 - Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)

1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915), who sadly died on her birthday (see above)

1987 - Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)

1989 - Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)

2002 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)

2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)

2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)