About the day » Tuesday August 29, 1741Calender converter

• Cornelius Hiel, Kruispolder
• Alexandre Rosselet
• Jacob van Leusden, Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelius Rommens, Wilmarsdonck, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Anna Catharina Mampaye, Boom, 2850, Antwerpen, Belgium
• James Rich, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1822)
• Auguste Joseph Nollet Noulet, Gaurain-Ramecroix,, Hainaut, Belgique († 1822)
• Andries van Kamerik, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1800)
• Anna Catharina Mampaey, Boom, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1783)
• Bernardus JEURGENS, Wanroy

• Heijltje Cornelisdr van der Spoor, monster (zuid holland)
• Elsken Barzen, Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jacob Cornelis Vollebregt (36), Bergschenhoek
• Elisabeth Cavendish (66)
• John Ball (51), Douglass, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States
• Crijntie Hendriks Remmerswaal (0), Wassenaar aangifte
• Aelbert Jansz. van Roosenburch (65), Wassenaar aangifte
• Jean CHAMBERLIN (74), Vervins,02,Aisne,Hauts de France,FRANCE
• Anne Jans Blau (35), ,, Graft, De Rijp, North Holland, Netherlands
• Heijltje Cornelisd Van Der SPOOR (84)

• 1724 » Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and author († 1803)
• 1725 » Charles Townshend, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer († 1767)
• 1728 » Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, electress of Bavaria († 1797)
• 1756 » Count Heinrich von Bellegarde, Austrian general and politician († 1845)
• 1756 » Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician and astronomer († 1830)
• 1773 » Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer († 1858)
• 1777 » Hyacinth, Russian religious leader, founded Sinology († 1853)
• 1780 » Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter and illustrator († 1867)
• 1792 » Charles Grandison Finney, American minister and author († 1875)
• 1805 » Frederick Denison Maurice, English priest, theologian, and author († 1872)

• 1657 » John Lilburne, English activist (b. 1614)
• 1712 » Gregory King, English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (b. 1648)
• 1749 » Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684)
• 1769 » Edmond Hoyle, English author and educator (b. 1672)
• 1780 » Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, co-designed The Panthéon (b. 1713)
• 1799 » Pius VI, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1717)
• 1844 » Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and educator, founded the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
• 1856 » Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author and activist (b. 1778)
• 1866 » Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)
• 1877 » Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• March 18 » New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
• April 10 » War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia gains control of Silesia at the Battle of Mollwitz.
• May 20 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
• June 25 » Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
• July 15 » Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
• September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.

The temperature on August 29, 1741 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: helder.