Thursday 29th of August 1799

250th Pope Pius VI dies of unknown causes at the age of 82 in Valence, Drôme, France.

Friday 29th of August 1862

Poet and writer Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck is born in Peperstraat 6, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Tuesday 29th of August 1871

The longest ever living woman in the USA Emma Broadwater is born in Magothy, Maryland, United States.

Wednesday 29th of August 1877

2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Brigham Young dies of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix at the age of 76 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

Young's last words were "Joseph! Joseph! Joseph!", invoking the name of the late Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon faith.

Monday 29th of August 1887

Murderer William Wilton is executed by hanging in Lewes Prison, Lewes, Sussex, United Kingdom.

Monday 29th of August 1904

Schutzhaftlagerführer in Ravensbrück KZ Johann Schwarzhuber is born in Tutzing, Oberbayern, Germany.

Sunday 29th of August 1915

Actress Ingrid Bergman is born in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.

Sunday 29th of August 1920

Musician Charlie Parker aka Bird is born in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.

Wednesday 29th of August 1923

Actor Richard Samuel Attenborough is born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

Wednesday 29th of August 1928

Murderer Gerard Toal is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint at the age of 18 in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

Friday 29th of August 1930

Oxford don William Archibald Spooner known for Spoonerism dies of natural causes at the age of 86 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

Thursday 29th of August 1935

Queen consort of the Belgians Sofia Lovisa Thyra Astrid of Sweden dies from her injuries sustained in a car crash at the age of 30 in Küssnacht, Schwyz, Switzerland.

King Leopold was driving their Packard One-Twenty convertible and Queen Astrid looking at a map. As the Queen pointed out something to her husband the car went off the road down a steep slope and slammed into a pear tree. Queen Astrid had opened her door to try to get out but she was thrown out upon impact. Her body collided with the trunk of the tree while the car slammed into a second tree. King Leopold was thrown out of the car as well but he was only lightly injured.

Monday 29th of August 1938

Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Saturday 29th of August 1942

Musician Sterling Holmes Morrison known from The Velvet Underground is born in East Meadow, New York, United States.

Sunday 29th of August 1943

Murderess Mildred Mary Bolton commits suicide by cutting her wrists with a pair of scissors at the age of 57 in Dwight Correctional Center, 23813 E. 3200 North Road, Dwight, Nevada Township, Illinois, United States.

Bolton was the first woman ever sentenced to the electric chair in Cook County.

Friday 29th of August 1958

Singer-songwriter and actor Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop is born in 2300 Jackson Street, Gary, Indiana, United States.

Saturday 29th of August 1959

34-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey rapes an unidentified girl in Grouville, Jersey, United Kingdom.

Monday 29th of August 1966

28-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 20. Aktion in his studio in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Nitsch' 20. Aktion lasted two hours.

Friday 29th of August 1969

6-year-old Gilbert Martinez is beaten and sexually assaulted by serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate in San Francisco, California, United States.

Police arrived and arrested the assailant who identified himself as Albert Ralph Price although he carried identification with the name Hobert Prater and later proved to be Hatcher.

Friday 29th of August 1969

22-year-old Glenda Sue Harden is stabbed to death by serial killer George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

Sunday 29th of August 1971

Kidnapper and murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer dies of a diabetes-related heart attack at the age of 67 in Adjuntas, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.

Leopold's corneas were donated.

Sunday 29th of August 1982

16-year-old Terri Rene Milligan is abducted and strangled by serial killer Gary Ridgway aka The Green River Killer in South 144th Street, Seattle, Washington, United States.

Sunday 29th of August 1982

Actress Ingrid Bergman dies of breast cancer at the age of 67 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Saturday 29th of August 1987

Actor Lee Marvin dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in Tucson, Arizona, United States.

Saturday 29th of August 1987

The bodies of  48-year-old Leader of the Evangelical Baptist Church Park Soon-ja aka Benevolent Mother and her three children and 29 members of the cult are found poisoned, strangled and beaten to death in the attic of Park's Odaeyang Trading Co. tourist souvenir factory in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

Saturday 29th of August 1992

Psychotherapist, philosopher and semiologist Félix Pierre Guattari dies of a heart attack at the age of 62 in Clinique de La Borde, 120 Route de Tour en Sologne, Cour-Cheverny, Centre-Val de Loire, France.

Thursday 29th of August 1996

141 die in Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 Tupolev Tu-154M crash in Operafjellet, Svalbard, Norway.

The accident was the result of a series of small navigational errors causing the aircraft to be 3.7 kilometres from the approach centerline at the time of impact.

Friday 29th of August 2014

Filmmaker Babeth Van Loo in my installation 'Hit the deck, Robin. I'll get us out of this. b/w But it was scary for a while, wasn't it?' at the opening of the exhibition 'Haperende Mens' in Arti et Amicitiae, Rokin 112, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Saturday 29th of August 2020

Child rapist and murderer Keith Dwayne Nelson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States.