22nd » Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the East India Company e.g British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
Famous Deaths for August 1639
4th » Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican actor and playwright (b. 1581)
7th » Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605)
20th » Martin Opitz, German poet and hymnwriter (b. 1597)