4th » Thomas Blackwell (scholar) or Thomas Blackwell, Scottish historian and scholar (d. 1757)
Famous Deaths for August 1701
20th » Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, English playwright and politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom) called Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1639)
22nd » John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1628)