* August 30 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist ( b. 1661 )

* August 21 – William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier ( b. c. 1661 )

However, the new Dutch political leader Johan de Witt deemed commerce more important than territory, and saw to it that New Holland was sold back to Portugal on August 6, 1661 through the Treaty of the Hague.

The château was lavish, refined, and dazzling to behold, but these characteristics proved tragic for its owner: the king had Fouquet arrested shortly after a famous fête that took place on 17 August 1661 where Molière's play ' Les Fâcheux ' debuted.

August von Meyerberg's panorama ( 1661 ) presents a different building, with a cluster of small onion domes.

Thomas Fuller ( 1608 – 16 August 1661 ) was an English churchman and historian.

Jin Shengtan () ( 1610 ?－ 7 August 1661 ), former name Jin Renrui ( 金人瑞 ), also known as Jin Kui ( 金喟 ), was a Chinese editor, writer and critic, who has been called the champion of Vernacular Chinese literature.

Following the English Restoration, the Inner Temple welcomed Charles II back to London with a lavish banquet on 15 August 1661.

* August 5-Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, poet ( born 1661 )

* August 21-William Cleland, poet ( born c. 1661 )

Sir Marmaduke Langdale ( 1598 at Pighall – 5 August 1661 at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor ) was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War.

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire KG PC ( 25 January 1640 – 18 August 1707 ) was an English soldier, politician and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1684 when he inherited the peerage as Earl of Devonshire.

Christopher Polhammar ( 18 December 1661 – 30 August 1751 ), better known as, which he took after his ennoblement, was a Swedish scientist, inventor and industrialist.

Louise de La Vallière ( Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc ; 6 August 1644 – 7 June 1710 ) was a mistress of Louis XIV of France from 1661 to 1667.

* August 30-Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor ( born 1661 )

1626 – 29 August 1661 ) was a French Baroque composer and performer.

During his last years, Couperin lived in the organist's lodgings at St. Gervais with his two brothers, and died on 29 August 1661, aged thirty-five according to Le Parnasse François.

The roads were often unmaintained and unsigned-Samuel Pepys records three journeys by this road in May 1661, April 1662 and August 1668, on the latter staying in Lippock:

1661 – 21 August 1689 ) was a Scottish poet and soldier.

31 August 1661, d. 4 September 1701 by suicide ).

Samuel Pepys records seeing it four times in 1661, twice with the puppet show and twice without ( 8 June, 27 June, 31 August and 7 September 1661 ).

Vatel served Louis XIV's superintendent Nicolas Fouquet in the splendid inauguration fête at the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte that took place on 17 August 1661, the occasion of Fouquet's downfall.

* Louis of Württemberg-Winnental ( 14 August 1661 – 30 November 1698 ).

A second time he was excommunicated ; but in 1146 he took the cross at the meeting of Vezelay called by Louis VII, and in August, 1147 embarked for the East in the Second Crusade.

Ken Holtzman pitched a no-hitter on August 19, and the division lead grew to 8 games over the St. Louis Cardinals and by 9 games over the New York Mets.

Rather than hold any games in the cross town rival Sox Park, the Cubs made arrangements with the August A. Busch, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, to use Busch Stadium in St. Louis as the Cubs " home field " for the World Series.

Despite this, Chicago engaged St. Louis in a see-saw battle for first place into August, but the Cardinals played to a torrid 20 – 6 pace that month, designating their rivals to battle in the Wild Card race, from which they were eliminated in the season's final week.

Because he could still be useful to a contending team, the Rockies traded him to the St. Louis Cardinals in August for three minor-leaguers.

He was Louis XVI's last minister of war ( July 1792 ), and organised the defence of the Tuileries Palace during the 10th of August attack.

In August 1691 the Austrians under Louis of Baden regained the advantage by heavily defeating the Turks at the Battle of Slankamen on the Danube, securing Habsburg possession of Hungary and Transylvania.

Although he had been invested as such on the 8th of August, on his and Eleanor's tour of the provinces a messenger caught up with them with the news that on 1 August, King Louis VI had died of dysentery.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

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 the foreign affairs front, in the Declaration of Pillnitz of August 1791, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Count Charles of Artois, and King Frederick William II of Prussia made Louis XVI's cause their own.

The official fall of the monarchy came on 10 August 1792 after Louis XVI refused to rescind his veto of the National Assembly's constitution.

When the Brunswick Manifesto of July 1792 once more threatened the French population with Austrian ( Imperial ) and Prussian attacks, Louis XVI was suspected of treason and taken along with his family from the Tuileries Palace in August 1792 by insurgents supported by a new revolutionary Paris Commune.

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

The new stadium ( renamed Jacksonville Municipal Stadium ) opened on August 18, 1995 with a preseason game against the St. Louis Rams.

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Lord Mountbatten swears in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of free India at the ceremony held at 8: 30 am Indian Standard Time | IST on 15 August 1947

Meanwhile, Alexander II invaded northern England again, taking Carlisle in August and then marching south to give homage to Prince Louis for his English possessions ; John narrowly missed intercepting Alexander along the way.

On 10 August 1792, Louis XVI was imprisoned and the royal collection in the Louvre became national property.

Louis St. Laurent, 7 August 1948

Louis IX ( 25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270 ), commonly Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death.

During his second crusade, Louis died at Tunis, 25 August 1270.