- Aug 4 Arnold Krug, German composer, dies at 54
- Aug 6 Eduard Hanslick, German music critic, dies at 78
- Aug 9 Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59
- Aug 10 Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French politician (29th Prime Minister of France), dies at 57
- Aug 12 William Renshaw, British tennis player and Wimbledon singles (1881-86, 1889 and with twin brother Ernest doubles champion (1884-86, 1888-89), dies of epileptic convulsions at 43
- Aug 22 Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, American writer, dies at 54
- Aug 25 William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
- Aug 29 Murad V, 33rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876), dies at 63
- Aug 30 Kate Fanny Loder, English composer and pianist, dies at 79
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