Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Aug 22 French composer (La Mer; Clair de lune), born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
- Aug 26 Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
Andrew Fisher (1862-1928)
Aug 29 5th Prime Minister of Australia (1908-09, 1910-13, 1914-15), born in Crosshouse, Ayrshire, Scotland
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
Aug 29 Belgian playwright, poet and author (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911), born in Ghent, Belgium