Birthdays in History
- Aug 17 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician who needed wider margins (Fermat's Last Theorem) [or 1608], born in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France (d. 1665)
Deaths in History
- Aug 22 Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
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