- Aug 4 Johann Gottlieb Schneider, German composer, dies at 59
- Aug 5 Robert Lucas Pearsall, English composer, dies at 61
- Aug 14 Constant Prévost, French geologist, dies at 69
- Aug 14 William Buckland, dean (Westminster)/geologist, dies
- Aug 19 Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist, dies at 39
- Aug 20 Philipp Jakob Riotte, German composer, dies at 80
- Aug 21 Peter Josef von Lindpaintner, German composer, dies at 64
- Aug 29 Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer, dies at 77
- Aug 30 Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)
- Aug 30 John Ross, Scottish naval officer and Artic explorer (he rediscovered Baffin Bay), dies at 79
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