- Aug 6 Catherine Beecher, American educator (championed higher education for women), born in East Hampton, New York (d. 1878)
- Aug 21 Hiram Walden, American politician, born in Pawlet, Vermont (d. 1880)
- Aug 22 Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar, born in Trieste, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1865)
- Aug 22 William S. Harney, U.S. general, born in Madison, Tennessee (d. 1889)
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