| 93121 | August 16 | Death | 2014 – Vsevolod Nestayko, Ukrainian author (b. 1930) |
| 93122 | August 16 | Death | 2014 – Mario Oriani-Ambrosini, Italian-South African lawyer and politician (b. 1960) |
| 93123 | August 16 | Death | 2014 – Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist, author, and academic (b. 1924) |
| 93124 | August 16 | Death | 2014 – Fernand St. Germain, American lawyer and politician (b. 1928) |
| 93125 | August 16 | Death | 2015 – Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-American physicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1947) |
| 93126 | August 16 | Death | 2015 – Sylvia Hitchcock, American model, Miss Universe 1967 (b. 1946) |
| 93127 | August 16 | Death | 2015 – Anna Kashfi, Indian-American actress (b. 1934) |
| 93128 | August 16 | Death | 2015 – Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani colonel and politician (b. 1943) |
| 93129 | August 16 | Death | 2015 – Mile Mrkšić, Croatian general (b. 1947) |
| 93130 | August 16 | Death | 2015 – Peter W. Schramm, Hungarian-American political scientist and academic (b. 1946) |
| 93131 | August 16 | Holiday and observance | Bennington Battle Day (Vermont, United States) |
| 93132 | August 16 | Holiday and observance | Children's Day (Paraguay) |
| 93133 | August 16 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:RochSimplicianStephen I of HungaryTranslation of the Acheiropoietos icon from Edessa to Constantinople. (Eastern Orthodox Church)August 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
| 93134 | August 16 | Holiday and observance | Gozan no Okuribi (Kyoto, Japan) |
| 93135 | August 16 | Holiday and observance | National Airborne Day (United States) |
| 93136 | August 16 | Holiday and observance | Restoration Day (Dominican Republic) |
| 93137 | August 16 | Holiday and observance | The first day of the Independence Days, celebrates the independence of Gabon from France in 1960. |
| 93138 | August 16 | Holiday and observance | Xicolatada (Palau-de-Cerdagne, France) |
| 93139 | August 17 | Event | 309/310 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, perhaps from a hunger strike. |
| 93140 | August 17 | Event | 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of the Gates of Trajan: The Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron defeat the Byzantine forces at the Gates of Trajan, with Byzantine Emperor Basil II barely escaping. |
| 93141 | August 17 | Event | 1186 – Georgenberg Pact: Ottokar IV, Duke of Styria and Leopold V, Duke of Austria sign a heritage agreement in which Ottokar gives his duchy to Leopold and to his son Frederick under the stipulation that Austria and Styria would henceforth remain undivid |
| 93142 | August 17 | Event | 1386 – Karl Topia, the ruler of Princedom of Albania forges an alliance with the Republic of Venice, committing to participate in all wars of the Republic and receiving coastal protection against the Ottomans in return. |
| 93143 | August 17 | Event | 1424 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Verneuil: An English force under John, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army under Jean II, Duke of Alençon, John Stewart, and Earl Archibald of Douglas. |
| 93144 | August 17 | Event | 1498 – Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate. On the same day, King Louis XII of France names him Duke of Valentinois. |
| 93145 | August 17 | Event | 1549 – Battle of Sampford Courtenay: The Prayer Book Rebellion is quashed in England. |
| 93146 | August 17 | Event | 1560 – The Roman Catholic Church is overthrown and Protestantism is established as the national religion in Scotland. |
| 93147 | August 17 | Event | 1585 – Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces. |
| 93148 | August 17 | Event | 1585 – A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina. |
| 93149 | August 17 | Event | 1597 – Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores. |
| 93150 | August 17 | Event | 1611 – Gaspar de Borja y Velasco is made a cardinal by Pope Paul V. |