Constantine I (1868-1923)
Aug 2 King of Greece (1913-17, 20-22), born in Athens, Greece
- Aug 5 Oskar Merikanto [Ala-Kanto], Finnish pianist, organist, and composer, born in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland (d. 1924)
- Aug 6 Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (L'Otage-1909), born in Villeneuve-sur-Fère, France (d. 1955)
- Aug 7 Granville Bantock, English composer and conductor (Hebridean Symphony), born in London (d. 1946)
- Aug 7 Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (Poisson distribution) and economist, born in Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia (d. 1931)
Hugo Eckener (1868-1954)
Aug 10 German inventor and commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin during its record-setting flights, born in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein
- Aug 10 Paul Warburg, German-American investment banker who influenced and encouraged the design of the Federal Reserve, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1932)
- Aug 12 Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, 22nd Governor of New South Wales (1908-13) and Viceroy of British India (1916-21), born in London, England (d. 1933)
- Aug 14 Leone Sinigaglia, Italian composer, born in Turin, Italy (d. 1944)
- Aug 16 Bernarr McFadden, American physical culture advocate, credited with beginning the culture of health and fitness in the United States, born in Mill Spring, Missouri (d. 1955)
- Aug 16 Charles Sanford Skilton, American composer (Suite Primeval), born in Northhampton, Massachusetts (d. 1941)
- Aug 20 Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1890), born in Rosedale, New York (d. 1954)
- Aug 22 Willis Rodney Whitney, American Chemist, founder of the General Electric research laboratory, and pioneer of industrial scientific research, born in Jamestown, NY (d. 1958)
- Aug 23 Paul Otlet, Belgian author, lawyer and peace activist (created the Universal Decimal Classification scheme), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1944)
- Aug 25 Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter, born in Corfu Island, Greece (d. 1942)
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