- Aug 8 Eugène Boudin, French painter (beach scenes), dies at 74
- Aug 9 Gardner Quincy Colton, American lecturer who was the first to use nitrous oxide as an anesthetic in dentistry, dies at 84
- Aug 17 Carl Johann Adam Zeller, Austrian composer, dies at 56
- Aug 21 Niccolò van Westerhout, Italian composer, dies at 40
- Aug 23 Joseph Robinson, Irish singer, organist and composer, dies at 82
- Aug 27 John Hopkinson, British physicist and electrical engineer (Hopkinson's Law), dies with three of his children in a mountaineering accident in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland at 49
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