- Aug 2 Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket-keeper (23 Tests, 32 dismissals, 2 x 50; Transvaal), born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan (d. 1936)
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
Aug 3 British WW I poet (Lithuania, The Soldier), born in Rugby, England
- Aug 5 Reginald Owen, British actor (Mary Poppins, Sherlock Holmes), born in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England (d. 1972)
- Aug 6 Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver, born in Edmonton, London (d. 1957)
- Aug 7 (Charles Luckyth) "Luckey" Roberts, stride pianist and composer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1968) [various sources dispute year - 1887 to 1895] [1]
- Aug 7 Henny Eman, Aruban politician who founded the Aruban People's Party, born in Aruba (d. 1957)
- Aug 8 Esme Percy, British actor (Murder!, Pygmalion, Old Spanish Custom), born in London, England (d. 1957)
- Aug 8 Malcolm Keen, British actor (The Lodger, The Manxman, The Murder Party), born in Bristol, England (d. 1970)
- Aug 8 Ullrich Haupt, Prussian actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), born in Falkenburg, Pomerania, Germany (d. 1931)
- Aug 9 Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Swammerdam), born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1974)
Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
Aug 12 Austrian physicist and Nobel Laureate (wave mechanics), born in Vienna, Austria
- Aug 13 Julius Freed [Fried], American namesake and co-founder of Orange Julius fast food chain, born in Montana (d. 1952)
- Aug 14 Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (Falscher Start), born in Riga, Russian Empire (d. 1937)
- Aug 17 Charles I, last ruler of Austria-Hungary (1916-18), born in Persenbeug Castle, Austria (d. 1922)
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Aug 17 Jamaican-born black nationalist who began the back-to-Africa movement among US African Americans, born in Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica
- Aug 18 Nico J. Polak, Dutch economist, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1948)
- Aug 23 Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor and playwright (Fatherland), born in Amsterdam (d. 1956)
- Aug 24 Harry Hooper, American Baseball HOF right fielder (World Series 1912, 15, 16, 18 Boston Red Sox), born in Bell Station, California (d. 1974)
- Aug 25 (Olav) Fartein Valen, Norwegian composer, pianist, polyglot, and rosarian, born in Stavanger, Norway (d. 1952)
- Aug 26 Luis Abraham Delgadillo, Nicaraguan pianist and composer (Inca Symphony), born in Managua (d. 1961)
- Aug 27 James Finlayson, Scottish-American stage and silent and "talkie" film actor (Laurel and Hardy films), born in Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland (d. 1953)
- Aug 28 Daniel Zamudio, Colombian organist, composer and folklorist, born in Bogotá, Colombia (d. 1952)
- Aug 30 Adam Kuckhoff, German writer and resistance fighter, born in Aachen, Germany (d. 1943)
- Aug 31 Friedrich A Paneth, Austrian-British chemist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1958)
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