Events in History Aug 30 Russian and Swedish sign Treaty of Nystad, ending North Sea War Birthdays in History Aug 4 Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803) Aug 21 Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken, Dutch poet, born in Amsterdam (d. 1789) Aug 31 George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775) Deaths in History Aug 3 Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born British sculptor and woodcarver, dies at 73 Aug 13 Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer, dies at 56 1720 On This Day in History 1722