Historical Events
- Aug 26 Battle of Plymouth: General-at-Sea George Ayscue of the Commonwealth of England attacked a convoy of the Dutch Republic commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter. Dutch victory
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 10 Pieter Scheemaeckers, Flemish Baroque sculptor (funeral monuments), born in Antwerp (d. 1714)
Famous Deaths
- Aug 9 John Dirksz Both, Dutch landscape painter and etcher, dies at about 37
- Aug 14 Abraham Elsevier, Dutch book publisher, dies at 60
- Aug 18 Benjamin G Cuyp, historical painter, dies at about 40
- Aug 22 Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (1st Governor-General of Swedish Livonia), dies at 69
- Aug 23 John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
