* August 25 – Ivan IV of Russia ( d. 1584 )

Because of increasing concern surrounding Queen Elizabeth's safety, in 1584 Elizabeth's Privy Council signed a " Bond of Association " The identities of the six conspirators were nevertheless discovered, and they were taken prisoner by 15 August 1586.

Philippe de Carteret II, 3rd Seigneur of Sark ( February 18, 1584 – August 22, 1643 ) was the son of Philippe de Carteret I ( 1552 – 1594 ) and Rachel Poulet ( 1564 – 1650 ).

* 1 ) MS. Cotton Appendix XLVI Part I ( available online at: is the diary for 28 May 1583 – 15 August 1584 inclusive: The Sixth ( and Sacred ) Parallel Book of the Mysteries ( not to be confused with " The Sixth and Sacred Book of the Mysteries ", which is part of Liber Logaeth-see above ) and " The Seventh Book of the Mysteries " ( Kraków ), beginning where A True and Faithful Relation begins.

* 2 ) MS. Cotton Appendix XLVI Part II ( available online at: ) is the diary for 15 August 1584 – 23 May 1587 ( and 20 March – 7 September 1607 ) inclusive: The Book of Praha, The Royal Stephanic Mysteries, The Puccian Action, The Book of Resurrection, The Third Action of Trebon and the remaining Spirit Actions at Mortlake in 1607, ending where A True and Faithful Relation ends.

Ermac Timofeyevich (; born between 1532 and 1542 – August 5 or 6, 1584 ) was a Cossack who led the Russian conquest of Siberia in the reign of Ivan the Terrible.

In August 1584, Ermac set out with a band of men to free the traders.

Whether because of an ongoing storm or because the men were tired from rowing upstream, Ermac ’ s force stopped on a small island formed by two branches of the Irtysh and set up camp on the night of August 4 – 5, 1584.

He passed away in Irtysh waves on August 5, 1584 .” Some believe that Ermac was born in the village of Kachalinskaya on the Don.

Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, KG ( 13 August 1584 – 3 June 1640 ) was an English nobleman and politician.

Tabarin was the street name assumed by the most famous of the Parisian street charlatans, Anthoine Girard ( c. 1584 – August 16, 1633 ), who amused his audiences in the Place Dauphine by farcical dialogue with his brother Philippe ( as Mondor ), with whom he reaped a golden harvest by the sale of quack medicines for several years after 1618.

Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington and Thirlstane ( 1496 – 1 August 1586 ) was a Senator of the College of Justice, an Ordinary Lord of Session from 1561 until 1584, and notable Scottish poet.

He suddenly attacked Yermak on August 6, 1584 in the dead of night, and killed Yermak and most of his army ; regaining control of the now ruined Qashliq.

On their way to Lisbon, at which they arrived in August 1584, they spent nine months visiting Macau, Kochi and Goa.

The first document reference appears in the Records of the Scottish Parliament for 22 August 1584, naming several procurators fiscal in Edinburgh.

In 1581, Andrey Shchelkalov conducted negotiations with a papal legate Antonio Possevino, and with the English ambassador Jeremiah Baus in 1583, which would write in a personal letter from August 12, 1584 that Andrey Shchelkalov and Nikita Romanov ( a boyar, who started the Romanov bloodline ) " considered themselves the tsars ".

This Siege of Antwerp took place during the Eighty Years ' War from July 1584 until August 1585.

Carolus Sigonius ( Carlo Sigonio or Sigone ) ( c. 1524 – 12 August 1584 ) was an Italian humanist, born in Modena.

He died in a country house purchased by him in the neighbourhood of Modena, in August 1584.

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.

Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar ( 9 July 1584 – 13 August 1639 ) was born in Staffordshire, England, about 1584, a son of Sir Edward Aston of Tixall and Anne Lucy of Charlecote Park.

* Sybille ( 3 June 1584 – 5 August 1652 ), married Julius Ernest, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Depiction of harvest in the August calendar page of the Queen Mary Psalter ( fol.

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

In August 2010, Bardot addressed a letter to the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II of Denmark, appealing for the sovereign to halt the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands.

The line was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 30 July 1987, and passenger services began on 31 August.

From July to August 1892 he served in the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert while Queen Victoria was holidaying in the Mediterranean.

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

By August, Oxford had demonstrated his loyalty to the Queen when approached by her exiled rebel subjects in Flanders, winning back her favour.

From March to August 1595 Oxford actively importuned the Queen, in competition with Lord Buckhurst, to farm the tin mines in Cornwall.

Louis was posted as midshipman to the battlecruiser HMS Lion in July 1916 and, after seeing action in August 1916, transferred to the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth during the closing phases of World War I.

On 5 August 1944 the Island Queen schooner disappeared with the loss of all 56 passengers and 11 crew.

Inaugurated in August 1888 by Queen Victoria, the first council meeting was held within the chambers in October 1889.

On 12 August 2012, The Prince represented his grandmother, the Queen, at the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Another historical subject, The Abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots, sold for ₤ 115, 250 at Sotheby's Gleneagles sale on 26 August 2008.

Trinidad and Tobago achieved full independence in August 1962 within the Commonwealth with Queen Elizabeth II as its titular head of state.

On August 11, 1857, Colonel Ebey was murdered and beheaded by Haida who traveled from the Queen Charlotte Islands when he was 39 years old.

In August 2007, Brian May, lead guitarist with the band Queen, handed in his PhD thesis Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud 36 years after starting it and then abandoning it in favour of a musical career.

* August 19 – John Deacon, English rock bassist ( Queen )

* August 22 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.

* August 4-Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ( later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ) born in London ( died 2002 )

* August 4 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ( later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, queen consort of George VI ; d. 2002 )

* August 19 – Queen Ratna of Nepal

* August 26 – Anne Marie d ' Orléans Queen consort of Sicily and Sardinia ( b. 1669 )

* August 31 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands ( d. 1962 )