- Aug 9 Louis Ferdinand, Prussian prince and a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, dies at 33
- Aug 10 Michael Haydn, Austrian composer, dies at 68
- Aug 22 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (The Swing), dies at 74
- Aug 23 Charles Augustin de Coulomb, Fren physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70
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