- Aug 22 Bartolomeo Spontone, Italian composer and singer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1592)
Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584)
Aug 25 Grand Prince of Moscow (1533-47) and 1st Tsar of Russia (1547-75 and 1576-84), born in Kolomenskoye, Russia
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