Further success followed in 1687 where, commanding a cavalry brigade, Eugene made an important contribution to the victory at the Battle of Mohács on 12 August.

To this effect, Chinna Venkatadri was sent to negotiate with the local Governor on August 4, 1687.

Stephen became one of the most popular saints in Hungary, and 20 August, which was also his feast day until 1687, is celebrated as a public holiday in Hungary commemorating the foundation of the state.

* August 12 – Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 1687 ) succeeds Ibrahim I ( 1640 – 1648 ) as Ottoman Emperor.

* August 12 – Battle of Mohács ( 1687 ): imperial army under Charles V, Duke of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Turks and enables Austria to conquer most of Ottoman-occupied Hungary.

* August 19 – Balthasar Neumann, German architect and military engineer ( b. 1687 )

It is unclear when de Moivre left the Prieure de Saint-Martin and moved to England, as the records of the Prieure de Saint-Martin indicate that he left the school in 1688, but de Moivre and his brother presented themselves as Huguenots admitted to the Savoy Church in London on August 28, 1687.

John William Friso ( 4 August 1687 – 14 July 1711 ) ( or Dutch: Johan Willem Friso van Oranje-Nassau ) became the titular Prince of Orange in 1702.

* August 19-Johann Balthasar Neumann ( born 1687 )

In August 1691, Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden had been able to gather an army of 50, 000 and marched south to provoke the Ottomans into another major battle, similar to the Battle of Mohács ( 1687 ), after which all the lost territory could be retaken.

Sophia and her party had discussed crowning her as tsarina, and in August 1687 had tried persuading the Streltsy to petition on her behalf.

Henry Carey ( c. 26 August 1687 – 5 October 1743 ) was an English poet, dramatist and song-writer.

Giuseppe Simone Assemani was born on 27 August 1687 in Hasroun, Mount Lebanon.

* Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford 13 August 1660 – 1687 jointly with

* John Manners, 9th Earl of Rutland 7 July 1677 – 11 August 1687

* Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon 11 August 1687 – 6 April 1689

As a result, a peace treaty was signed between Shaista Khan and Mr. Charnock on 16th August 1687.

* Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford 26 July 1660 – 11 August 1687

* George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys 11 August 1687 – 18 April 1689

Eleonora Maria Jauch's ( 1732 – 1797 ) father-in-law was the dean of Bardowick Kaspar Nicolaus Overbeck, in whose foster-parental home August Hermann Francke 1687 had been guest when he experienced his so-called " Lüneburg conversion " ( Lüneburger Bekehrung ), making him one of the earliest leaders of Pietism.

It had been inherited by his father's older brother, Duke August ( 1652 – 1689 ), and nephew Frederick William I ( 1682 – 1719 ), and was then sold by the latter's widow to Peter August's older brother, Duke Frederick William II ( 1687 – 1749 ), in 1732.

Frederick Louis was succeeded as duke by his eldest son, Frederick William II ( 1687 – 1749 ) ( whose only son, Duke Frederick William III, died in the Battle of Prague in 1757 ), and eventually by his younger sons, Charles Louis ( 1690 – 1774 ), and Peter August ( 1697 – 1775 ).

On 21 August 1687, secretary of state Sunderland signed a commission that put Holmes in command of a squadron to suppress the buccaneers of the West Indies, but it is doubtful whether he ever actually took command.

* Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset 16 July 1683 – 11 August 1687

Alphonse of Poitiers ( 11 November 1220 – 21 August 1271 ) was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse ( as Alfonso II ) from 1247.

After Arnulf's birth, Carloman married, before 861, a daughter of that same Count Ernst, who died after 8 August 879.

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.

Still they remained a potent threat of trouble for the young Third Republic ; Count Henri's death on 24 August 1883 removed a large threat to the Third Republic.

On 11 August 1939, Ribbentrop met the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, and the Italian Ambassador to Germany, Count Bernardo Attolico, in Salzburg.

In Germany, the Electors met at Rhense on 20 August 1400 to depose the unworthy Wenceslaus as German King and chose in his place Rupert, Duke of Bavaria and Rhenish Count Palatine.

Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the " Esposizione Internazionale d ' Arte Cinematografica ", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the Lido, Venice, Italy.

Solomon considers his three closest friends to have been Gottfried von Jacquin, Count August Hatzfeld, and Sigmund Barisani ; others included his older colleague Joseph Haydn, singers Franz Xaver Gerl and Benedikt Schack, and the horn player Joseph Leutgeb.

* August 31 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the establishment of the Triple Entente.

* August 21 – Count Basie, American musician and bandleader ( d. 1984 )

* August 24 – Henry, Count of Chambord, pretender to the French throne ( b. 1820 )

* August 31 – The First Carlist war ( Spain ) ends with the Convenio de Vergara, also known as the Abrazo de Vergara (" the embrace in Vergara "; Bergara in Basque ), between liberal general Baldomero Espartero, Count of Luchana and Carlist General Rafael Maroto.

* August 25 – Seven Years ' War – Battle of Zorndorf: Frederick defeats the Russian army of Count Wilhelm Fermor near the Oder.

* The Maya calendar dates the creation of the Earth to August 11 or August 13, 3114 BC ( establishing that date as day zero of the Long Count 13. 0. 0. 0. 0 ).

* August 2 – Count Raymond VI of Toulouse ( b. 1156 )

* August 24 – Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou ( d. 1151 )

* August 21 – Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, is elected as Holy Roman Emperor.

* August 17 – William IX, Count of Poitiers ( d. 1156 )

John the Blind ( Luxembourgish: < span lang =" lb "> Jang de Blannen </ span >; German: < span lang =" de "> Johann der Blinde von Luxemburg </ span >; Czech: < span lang =" cz "> Jan Lucemburský </ span >) ( 10 August 1296 – 26 August 1346 ) was the Count of Luxembourg from 1309 and King of Bohemia from 1310 and titular King of Poland.

Full titulature Albert possessed went as follows: Albert, by the grace of God elected King of the Romans, always August, King of Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, Rama, Serbia, Galicia, Lodomeria, Cumania and Bulgaria, elected King of Bohemia, duke of Austria, Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, margrave of Moravia, Lord of the Wendish March and Port Naon, Count of Habsburg, Tyrol, Ferrete and Kyburg, etc.