- Aug 14 Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Instruction of Florida) and Presbyterian minister, dies at 52
- Aug 22 Sydney Thompson Dobell, English poet, dies at 50
- Aug 27 Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies
- Aug 27 John Henry Foley, Irish sculptor (Prince Albert Memorial), dies at 56
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Suicide