Aug 6 Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant, dies at 70 Aug 18 Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608) Aug 28 Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist, father of international law, dies at 62 Aug 31 Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566) 1644 Famous Deaths by Year 1646