* August 15 – John Barclay, Scottish writer ( b. 1582 )

* August 10 – Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader ( b. 1582 )

Frans Hals the Elder ( c. 1582 – 26 August 1666 ) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

On 13 August 1582 Coke married Bridget Paston, daughter of John Paston, a Counsellor from Norwich.

Six months after his humiliating peace with the Polish monarch, Ivan IV was glad to conclude a truce with Sweden also on a uti possidetis basis at Plussa, on August 5, 1582.

* August 10-Johann Gerhard, Lutheran theologian ( born 1582 )

* August 21-Juan de Tassis y Peralta, 2nd Count of Villamediana, poet ( murdered ) ( born 1582 )

* August 15-John Barclay, Scottish writer ( born 1582 )

The Taichang Emperor (; 28 August 1582 – 26 September 1620 ) was the fourteenth Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

* Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk ( 13 August 1582 – 3 June 1640 ) married: Elizabeth Hume had issue

Pelletier died at Paris in July or August 1582.

James Crichton, known as the Admirable Crichton ( 19 August 1560 – 3 July 1582 ), was a Scottish polymath noted for his extraordinary accomplishments in languages, the arts, and sciences before his killing when aged 21.

Forwarded by Valignano to the Order's Superior in India in 1580, Ruggieri's request was fulfilled, and Ricci joined him in Macau 7 August 1582.

# Maria Amalia ( 27 July 1582 – 31 October 1635 ), married on 23 August 1600 to Count Wilhelm I of Solms-Braunsfeld-Greiffenstein.

John Barclay ( Pont-à-Mousson, 28 January 1582 — Rome, 15 August 1621 ) was a Scottish writer, satirist and neo-Latin poet.

William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton ( 1582 – 7 August 1648 ) was a grandson of the 6th Earl of Morton.

Rivven ), when the Protestant lords, headed by William, 4th Lord Ruthven and 1st earl of Gowrie ( 1441 – 1584 ), kidnapped the boy-king James VI, on August 22, 1582.

Daind had letters of legitimation under the Great Seal 11 July 1582 and a grant of the lands of Tourgill 8 August 1598.

* Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk ( 13 August 1582 – 3 June 1640 ) married: Elizabeth Hume had issue

The Raid of Ruthven was a political conspiracy in Scotland which took place on 22 August 1582.

Copies of relevant papers, such as the Lords's " supplication " of 23 August 1582 and Lennox's protest, " D ' Obany's petition ", were given by John Colville to Robert Bowes and sent to England, where they remain in the Public Record Office.

On 3 August 2007, Mexican archaeologists announced discovery of what is believed to be the tomb of Ahuizotl beneath a sculpture of Tlaltecuhtli near the Zócalo in Mexico City.

On 17 August 1990, the Serbs began what became known as the Log Revolution, where barricades of logs were placed across roads throughout the South as an expression of their secession from Croatia.

On August 24, the Rockies faced the San Francisco Giants in what ended up being a 14 inning game which lasted close to 5 hours ( 4: 57 ), the second longest game in Rockies history.

In late August, 1552, the Santa Cruz reached the Chinese island of Shangchuan, 14 km away from the southern coast of mainland China, near Taishan, Guangdong, 200 km south-west of what later became Hong Kong.

The Sixth General Assembly of the Fatah Movement, nearly 16 years after the Oslo Conference and 20 years since the last Fatah convention began on 4 August 2009, in Bethlehem, West Bank after being repeatedly postponed over conflicts ranging from who would be represented, to what venue would be acceptable.

On 4 August 1789, the National Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism ( although at that point there had been sufficient peasant revolts to almost end feudalism already ), in what is known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate.

When the French Constituent Assembly abolished the " feudal regime " in August 1789 this is what was meant.

In August 2007 Newsweek reported that in April 1998 a dozen people from what it called " the denial machine " met at the American Petroleum Institute's Washington headquarters.

On 4 August 1789, the Assembly abolished feudalism, in what became known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate ( nobility ) and the tithes gathered by the First Estate ( clergy ).

In August 1936, Hitler appointed Ribbentrop Ambassador to Britain with orders to negotiate the Anglo-German alliance: ... et Britain to join the Anti-Comintern Pact, that is what I want most of all.

On 24 August 2011, Marcus Atkinson, a local Loch Ness boat skipper, photographed a sonar image of a long 5 ft wide unidentified object which was apparently following his boat for two minutes at a depth of 75 ft. Atkinson ruled out the possibility of any small fish or seal being what he believed to be the Loch Ness Monster.

In August 1933, Italian journalist Francesco Gasparini submitted what he claims was the first news article on the Loch Ness monster.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (; October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965 ), was an architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

On 1 August 1984, Andy Mould, who had been involved in the discovery of Lindow Woman, took what he thought was a piece of wood off the elevator of the peat-shredding machine.

Most of what is known as Lansing today is the direct result of the city becoming an industrial powerhouse which began with the founding of Olds Motor Vehicle Company in August 1897.

The match was played at The Oval in August on what was said to be a difficult pitch.

Clinton had also said, " there is not a sexual relationship, an improper sexual relationship or any other kind of improper relationship " which he defended as truthful on August 17, 1998, hearing because of the use of the present tense, famously arguing " it depends on what the meaning of the word ' is ' is " ( i. e., he was not, at the time he made that statement, still having a sexual relationship with Lewinsky ).

On August 18, 2009, after months of speculation and negotiations, twice-retired veteran quarterback Brett Favre, who until 2007 played 16 years for division arch rival Green Bay Packers, signed a two-year, $ 25 million deal with the Vikings, starting what many Vikings fans refer to as " The Brett Favre Era ".

At the same time, British, French and Soviet negotiators scheduled three-party talks on military matters to occur in Moscow in August 1939, aiming to define what the agreement would specify should be the reaction of the three powers to a German attack.

On August 17, 1984, the day before what would have been his 50th birthday, the United States Postal Service issued a postage stamp honoring Clemente.

Napoleon himself inspected what had already begun to be called la Pierre de Rosette, the Rosetta Stone, shortly before his return to France in August 1799.

Sheldon Rampton ( born August 4, 1957 ) was the American editor of PR Watch, and is the author of several books that criticize the public relations industry and what he sees as other forms of corporate and government propaganda.

* On August 9, 1988, in what became the biggest trade in NHL history ( also known as " The Trade Of The Century "), Wayne Gretzky was traded along with teammates Marty McSorley and Mike Krushelnyski from Edmonton to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Martin Gelinas, Jimmy Carson, three first round draft picks, and $ 15 million cash ( approximately $ 18 million CAD in 1988 ).