* August 28 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar ( died 1653 )

Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp ( 23 April 1598 – 10 August 1653 ) was an officer and later admiral in the Dutch navy.

In the final Battle of Scheveningen on 10 August 1653 Tromp was killed, a blow to Dutch morale, but the English had to end their blockade of the Dutch coast.

The First Anglo-Dutch War was concluded with an English victory in the Battle of Scheveningen in August 1653, although a peace treaty was not signed for another eight months.

The Battle of Scheveningen was fought between English and Dutch fleets off the coast of the village on 10 August 1653.

The area was first settled in the late 1653 by a group from New Sweden. The Township was founded during a split from Darby Township on August 30, 1736.

The fleets met again on 31 July 1653 ( 8 August 1653 New Style ) at the Battle of Scheveningen.

The Battle of Terheide, 10 August 1653: episode from the First Anglo-Dutch War ( 1652 – 54 ) by Willem van de Velde the Elder

John Taylor ( 24 August 1578 – 1653 ) was an English poet who dubbed himself " The Water Poet ".

The same year he was sent to Bordeaux to support the Fronde rebellion but achieved little ; he returned to England in August 1653.

In November 1652 Monck became a general at sea in the First Anglo-Dutch War, which was concluded with an English victory in the Battle of Scheveningen in August 1653, although a peace treaty was not signed for another eight months.

* Wilhelm Ulrich ( 1st time ) ( acting ) ( May 1653 – August 16, 1653 )

* Heinrich von Thurn-Valsassina, Count of Thurn ( August 16, 1653 – 1655 )

File: De slag bij Terheide-The Battle of Schevening-August 10 1653 ( Willem van de Velde I, 1657 ). jpg | The Battle of Terheide ( 1657 ), commemorating the Battle of Scheveningen on 10 August 1653

On August 8, 1653, Rolfe patented 525 acres, "... lying upon the North side of Chickahominy river commonly called and known by the name of James fort ...", apparently including the 400 acres he had received in 1646.

Sir Felim O ' Neill of Kinard ( died August 1653 ), also called Phelim MacShane O ' Neill or Féilim Ó Néill ( Irish ), was an Irish nobleman who led the Irish Rebellion of 1641 in Ulster which began on 22 October 1641.

In August 1653, O ' Neill was executed, in accordance with the verdict of a High Court set up in Dublin by the Cromwellian government.

# Prince John Louis of Nassau-Hadamar ( 6 August 1590 – 10 March 1653 ).

Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, KG, PC ( 14 August 1653 – 6 October 1688 ) was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1667 to 1670 when he inherited the Dukedom and sat in the House of Lords.

The title Marquis de Vallado is a Spanish title bestowed upon Humphrey Walrond on August 5, 1653 by King Philip IV of Spain.

John Oldham ( August 9, 1653 – December 9, 1683 ) was an English satirical poet and translator.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

This release effort resulted in yet another military coup d ' état on August 4, 1983.

He married Helen Leech ( 1839 – 1932 ), the daughter of another wealthy cotton merchant and shipbuilder from Stalybridge, at Gee Cross on 8 August 1863.

Coldcut and Mark Saunders produced her debut solo single " This Is the Right Time " which became another UK Top 20 hit in August as well as reaching # 21 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 the following year.

On August 25, the Rockies won 5 – 4 on another walk-off thanks to Troy Tulowitzki's bases loaded, one out single in the bottom of the 10th.

In August 2006, a scene involving Carly Wicks ( Kellie Shirley ) and Jake Moon ( Joel Beckett ) having sex on the floor of Scarlet nightclub, and another scene involving Owen Turner violently attacking Denise Fox, prompted 129 and 128 complaints, respectively.

In August 1564 Oxford was among 17 nobles, knights and esquires in the Queen's entourage who were awarded the honorary degree of Master of Arts by the University of Cambridge, and was awarded another by Oxford University on a Royal progress in 1566.

In August 1989, Prime Minister Blaize broke with the GNP to form another new party, The National Party ( TNP ), from the ranks of the NNP.

It failed but in August 1840, Prince Louis Napoleon tried another coup at Boulogne with hired soldiers.

In August 2010, Karzai took control of the taskforce that staged the raid, and another US-advised anti-corruption group, the Major Crimes Task Force.

Though this was " fixed " at one level, another year passed before the Volunteers took an oath of allegiance to the Irish Republic and its government, " throughout August 1920 ".

The Council of the Authority began work, in August 2002, on another set of regulations, covering polymetallic sulphides and cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts, which are rich sources of such minerals as copper, iron, zinc, silver and gold, as well as cobalt.

A retrospective of the director's films was hosted at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during February 1994, and another, " The Sad and Beautiful World of Jim Jarmusch ", by the American Film Institute in August 2005.

He also started a business partnership with John Ellsler, manager of the Cleveland Academy of Music, and another friend, Thomas Mears, to develop oil wells in northwestern Pennsylvania, where an oil boom had started in August 1859, following Edwin Drake's discovery of oil there.

It is a record of the trial of the Templars and shows that Clement absolved the Templars of all heresies in 1308 before formally disbanding the Order in 1312, as did another Chinon Parchment dated 20 August 1308 addressed to Philip IV of France, also mentioning that all Templars that had confessed to heresy were " restored to the Sacraments and to the unity of the Church ".

Eichenwald's account of Whitacre has been called into question by the syndicated columnist Alan Guebert, following the disclosure in August 2007 that Eichenwald paid his sources on another story.

On August 13, 2008, MIPS announced a loss of $ 108. 5 million for their fiscal fourth-quarter and that they would lay-off another 15 % of their workforce.

By August, Smith and Television were gigging together at another downtown New York club, Max's Kansas City.

" The band played its first gig at CBGB on August 16, 1974, on the same bill as another new act, Angel and the Snake, soon to be renamed Blondie.

Ten years after " the Phold ", they suffered another minor collapse in August and September 1974, missing out on the playoffs yet again.

He is not to be confused with another Saint Agapetus, an Early Christian martyr with the feast day of 6 August.

In August 1939, after another failure of attempts to establish a counter-Nazism alliance with Britain and France, and after Western powers had engaged in the policy of Appeasement with Nazi Germany, the Soviet government finally agreed to establish peaceful relations by concluding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, pledging non-aggression between the two countries and dividing their spheres of influence in Eastern Europe.

A major layoff at the company occurred in August 2009 after the financial failure of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the poor performance of Wolfenstein, followed by another in October 2010 after delays with Singularity.

On August 5, in a game won by Pittsburgh, 1-0, another Mays line drive did not elude the Pirates ' right fielder, thus preserving a scoreless tie, though leaving Clemente hospitalized, having crashed face-first into Forbes Field's right-centerfield fence at the 375-foot mark.

In August 1485 there was another rebellion against Richard, headed by Henry Tudor, 2nd Earl of Richmond ( later King Henry VII ) and his uncle Jasper.