Events in History Aug 13 British fleet under Lord Seymour overthrows Suriname Event of Interest Aug 23 Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power. French EmperorNapoléon Bonaparte Aug 27 British invasion army lands in North Holland Aug 30 Batavian fleet surrenders to British Birthdays in History Aug 11 Joachim de Barrande, French paleontologist/geologist Aug 20 Heinrich von Gagern, German liberal politician, born in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany (d. 1880) Deaths in History Aug 2 Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French inventor, dies at 54 Aug 5 Richard Howe, British admiral, dies at 73 Aug 7 John Bacon, English sculptor, dies at 58 Aug 15 Giuseppe Parini, Italian prose writer and poet (Il Giorno), dies at 70 Pius VI Aug 29 Pope Pius VI [Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71 PopePius VI Aug 31 Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720) 1798 On This Day in History 1800