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Aug 21 Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
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Elizabeth Báthory
Aug 7 Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and the world's most prolific female serial killer, born in Nyírbátor, Hungary (d. 1614)
- Aug 10 Hieronymus Praetorius, German choral composer, born in Hamburg (d. 1629)
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