Aug 5 Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, German composer and court organist, born in Hagenau, Alsace. Holy Roamn Empire (now Haguenau, France) (d. 1683)
Aug 17 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician who needed wider margins (Fermat's Last Theorem) [or 1608], born in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France (d. 1665)
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