* August 8 – King Louis XVI of France agrees to convene the Estates-General meeting in May 1789, the first time since 1614.

* August 29 – John Lilburne, English dissenter ( b. c. 1614 )

* February 28-In the aftermath of the 1613 – 1614 anti-Jewish pogrom called the Fettmilch Uprising, in Frankfurt, Germany, mob leader Vincenz Fettmilch is beheaded, but the Jews, who had been expelled from the city on August 23, 1614, following the plundering of the Judengasse, can only return as a result of direct intervention by Holy Roman Emperor Matthias.

* August 24 – Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator ( b. 1614 )

* August 19 – François de Bourbon, prince de Conti ( d. 1614 )

* August 24 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter ( d. 1614 )

Finally, on 8 July and 8 August, the king announced his intention to bring back the Estates General, the traditional elected legislature of the country which had not been convened since 1614.

Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed ( Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, Alžbeta Bátoriová in Slovak ; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614 ) was a countess from the renowned Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary.

On 21 August 1614, Elizabeth Báthory was found dead in her castle.

John Lilburne ( 1614 – 29 August 1657 ), also known as Freeborn John, was an English political Leveller before, during and after English Civil Wars 1642-1650.

Upon his eighteenth birthday on 26 August 1614, Frederick assumed personal control of Electoral Palatinate.

* August 29-John Lilburne, political agitator and writer ( born c. 1614 )

François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti ( 19 August 1558 – 3 August 1614 ) was the third son of Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, a junior line of the House of Bourbon, and his first wife Eléanor de Roucy de Roye ).

After his arrival in 1611 in the East Indies, he was sent to Japan to replace Jacques Specx temporarily as opperhoofd at Dejima from August 28, 1612 to August 6, 1614.

At this time, his first wife Honora was buried 16 August 1614 at Waltham Abbey.

Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford ( c. 1599 – 21 August 1673 ), known as the Lord Grey of Groby from 1614 to 1628, was an English nobleman and military leader.

Shortly after his election, Emperor Matthias invited Bucquoy to take charge the Imperial Army and he accepted the post in August 1614.

On August 24, 1614 ( Keichō 19 ), the huge new bronze bell was cast successfully.

* Robert Hamilton, born 14 May 1614 and killed in the explosion at Dunglass Castle on 30 August 1640, unmarried.

Sir Thomas Dale ( died 19 August 1619 ) was an English naval commander and deputy-governor of the Virginia Colony in 1611 and from 1614 to 1616.

* August 19 – Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam, French writer ( b. 1838 )

* January 3 – In the court of James I of England, the king's favorite George Villiers becomes Master of the Horse ; on April 24 he receives the Order of the Garter ; and on August 27 is created Viscount Villiers and Baron Waddon, receiving a grant of land valued at £ 80, 000.

* August 23 – George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.

* August 23 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman ( b. 1592 )

* August 28 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman ( died 1628 )

* August 25 – Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician ( b. c. 1656 )

* August 21 – Philippe Villiers de L ' Isle-Adam, 44th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller ( b. 1464 )

Two years after she proposed to him and in the face of parental disapproval, Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton ( 1874 – 1964 ), third daughter of Edward Bulwer-Lytton the 1st Earl of Lytton, a former Viceroy of India, and Edith Villiers, married Lutyens on 4 August 1897 at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham KG (; 28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628 ) was the favourite, claimed by some to be the lover, of King James I of England.

He was born in Brooksby, Leicestershire, in August 1592, the son of the minor gentleman Sir George Villiers ( 1550 – 1604 ).

* August 19-Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam, symbolist writer ( born 1838 )

John Felton ( c. 1595 – 29 November 1628 ) was a lieutenant in the English army who stabbed George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham to death in Portsmouth on 23 August 1628.

Negroponte and his wife, the former Diana Mary Villiers ( b. 14 August 1947 ), have five children: Marina, Alexandra, John, George and Sophia.

Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey ( c. 1656 – 25 August 1711 ) son of Sir Edward Villiers ( 1620 – 1689 ) of Richmond and Frances Howard, the youngest daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and Elizabeth Hume, was created Baron Villiers and Viscount Villiers in 1691 and Earl of Jersey in 1697.

His paternal grandfather, Louis Le Jolis de Villiers, born at Brucheville on 17 October 1874, was killed in action in World War I at Saint-Paul-en-Forêt on 10 September 1914, and married on 24 October 1904 Jeanne de Saintignon ( Auverre, 27 July 1880 – 25 August 1959 ), by whom he had five children, the youngest of whom was Philippe's father Jacques.

In August 2009, Philippe de Villiers announced that the MPF would join the Liaison Committee for the Presidential Majority, which co-ordinates the member parties of the majority supporting the policies of President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam ( 7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889 ) was a French symbolist writer.

André-Jean-François-Marie Brochant de Villiers ( August 6, 1772 – May 16, 1840 ) was a French mineralogist and geologist.

Originally from South Africa, de Villiers is the mother of Nina de Villiers, a McMaster University student who was murdered on August 9, 1991 while jogging in Burlington, Ontario.

When he died in August 1979, reputedly over 100, 000 Jews attended his funeral in Kiryas Joel.

Long reputedly ghost-wrote two, possibly three, of the Ellery Queen Junior novels ( see Ellery Queen ( house name ) ( mentioned in correspondence with August Derleth ) but unfortunately did not identify the three titles.

The island is located near the geographical center of the Cyclades island complex, and because of the Panagia Evangelistria church, with its reputedly miraculous icon of Virgin Mary that it holds, Tinos is also the center of a yearly pilgrimage that takes place on the date of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary ( August 15, " Dekapentavgoustos " in Greek ).

In August 1820 a gang of men ( reputedly, the Thistlewood gang ) who had some imagined grievance against him burnt down his house and severely wounded him in a murderous assault.

Edward James was born on 16 August 1907, the only son of William James, an American railroad magnate who moved to England and married Evelyn Forbes, a Scots socialite, who was reputedly fathered by the Prince of Wales ( later Edward VII ).