* August 24 – John Owen, English non-conformist theologian ( b. 1616 )

* August 2 – Mikołaj Krzysztof " the Orphan " Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman ( d. 1616 )

They reached the Northern Moluccas in August and finally Ternate, the headquarters of the VOC, on September 12, 1616.

John Owen ( 1616 – 24 August 1683 ) was an English Nonconformist church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.

* August 24-John Owen, theologian ( born 1616 )

Comment :- Contradiction on this page Lucy Mervyn died 20 Feb 1616, he married his 2nd wife Elizabeth Noel on 29 August 1611?

* William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford ( August 1616 – 7 September 1700 ).

* Radu Mihnea-son of Mihnea Turcitul, September 1601-March 1602, March-May 1611, September 1611-August 1616, August 1620-August 1623

Vincenzo Scamozzi ( 2 September 1548 – 7 August 1616 ) was a Venetian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century.

Johannes Valentinus Andreae ( August 17, 1586 – June 27, 1654 ), a. k. a. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian, who claimed to be the author of the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 ( 1616, Strasbourg, the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz ) one of the three founding works of Rosicrucianism.

From August until November 1616, the New Netherland Company, which had an exclusive trading patent for the New Netherland territory between 40 ° and 45 ° latitude, had tried unsuccessfully to obtain an exclusive patent from the States General of the Dutch Republic for the territory between 38 ° and 40 ° latitude.

The Guard was formed by Louis XIII in 1616 and massacred at the Tuileries on 10 August 1792 during the French Revolution.

He was a supplicant for incorporation at Oxford University in 1616 and became an advocate of Doctors ' Commons on 5 August 1616.

# on 11 August 1636 at Haynes, Bedfordshire, to Elizabeth Eliot ( 1616 -), daughter of the parliamentarian Sir John Eliot, by whom he had four children, including two sons, William and Nathaniel, who reached maturity

* Sir George Villiers, 25 July 1616 – 8 November 1619 ( created Viscount Villiers 27 August 1616, Earl of Buckingham 5 January 1617 and Marquess of Buckingham 1 January 1618 )

But this situation was not to last: in August 1616 Iskender Pasha, beylerbey ( bejlerbej ) of Bosnia, defeated magante forces on the very same spot at Sasowy Róg, with duke Samuel Korecki and the Movilă family ending up as prisoners in Istanbul ( Wiśniowiecki had died prior to imprisoning ).

Scipione Gentili ( Latin: Scipio Gentilis ) ( 1563 – August 7, 1616 ) was an Italian law professor and a legal writer.

In 1616 he went to Rome, for unexplained reasons, and resided there until his death on 15 August 1621, aged 39.

* George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham 16 September 1616 – 23 August 1628

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.

From August until November 1616, the company tried unsuccessfully to obtain a new patent for a territory situated between the 38th and 40th parallels ( i. e., the Delaware Bay area ) which in 1614, 1615 and 1616 had been surveyed by Cornelis Hendricksz from Monnikendam on the ship Onrust.

His Holiness Abune Paulos died in August 2012 and transitionally a new pope is elected until an election is made next year.

In August 1455 Aeneas again arrived in Rome on an embassy to proffer the obedience of Germany to the new pope, Calixtus III.

Pope Gregory IX ( c. 1145 / 70 – 22 August 1241 ), born Ugolino di Conti, was pope from 19 March 1227 until his death.

Pope Sixtus II or Pope Saint Sixtus II ( a corruption of Greek, Xystus, " polished ") was pope from 30 August 257 to 6 August 258.

Pope Saint Sixtus III was pope from 31 July 432 to 18 August 440.

Pope Stephen III ( c. 720 – 1 February 772 ) was pope from 1 August 768 to 1 February 772.

After Constantine was officially dethroned on August 6, Stephen was consecrated pope on the following day, August 7, 768.

Pope Saint Eugene I or Eugenius I, was pope from 10 August 654 to 1 June 657.

He was elected pope on 10 August 654, ascended in 655, and died on 1 June 657 of natural causes.

* August 11 – Pope Alexander VI succeeds Pope Innocent VIII as the 214th pope, after the 1492 papal conclave, the first held in the Sistine Chapel.

* August 4 – Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 257th pope.

* August 7 – Pope Stephen III succeeds Pope Paul I as the 94th pope.

* August 14 – Pope Paschal II succeeds Pope Urban II as the 160th pope .</ onlyinclude >

* August – Pope Valentine succeeds Pope Eugene II as the 100th pope.

* August 25 – Pope Boniface IV succeeds Pope Boniface III as the 67th pope.

* August 9 – Pope Sixtus IV succeeds Pope Paul II as the 212th pope.

* August 2 – Pope Stephen IX ( sometimes referred to as Stephen X ) succeeds Pope Victor II as the 154th pope.

* August 24 – Sack of Rome: King Genseric leads the Vandals into Rome after he has promised pope Leo I not to burn and plunder the city.

* August 17 – Pope Benedict XIV succeeds Pope Clement XII as the 247th pope.

* August 30 – Pope Sixtus II succeeds Pope Stephen I as the 24th pope.

* August 19 – Pope Pius II succeeds Pope Callixtus III as the 210th pope.

* August 17 – Pope Leo II succeeds Pope Agatho as the 80th pope.