- Aug 3 George Inness, American landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69
- Aug 16 Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar), dies at 70
- Aug 17 Charles L. Robinson, American politician (1st Governor of Kansas, 1861-63; Kansas Senate, 1873-81), dies at 76
- Aug 17 Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar), dies at 70
- Aug 18 William Charles Levey, Irish conductor and composer, dies at 57
- Aug 26 PPH van Ham, Dutch general-major, dies in battle on Lombok
- Aug 26 Te Wherowhero Tāwhia, Second Māori King and leader of the Waikato tribes in New Zealand, dies at 71 or 72
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