Aug 1 Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter, born in Penegoes, Montgomeryshire, Wales (d. 1782) Aug 14 Claude-Joseph Vernet, French painter, born in Avignon, France (d. 1789) Aug 28 Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, born in Bevern, Germany (d. 1774) 1713 Famous Birthdays by Year 1715