Historical Events
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 3 August Kuhnel, German composer and musician, born in Delmenhorst, County of Oldenburg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. ca 1700)
- Aug 10 Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711)
- Aug 16 Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (The Characters, or the Manners of the Age, with The Characters of Theophrastus), born in Paris (d. 1696)
Famous Deaths
Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
Aug 28 Dutch jurist, father of international law, dies of an illness at 62 after being shipwrecked
- Aug 31 Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566)
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