- Aug 1 Edward Austin Abbey, American painter (Quest of the Holy Grail mural at Boston Public Library), dies at 59
- Aug 1 Konrad Duden, German linguist (the Duden dictionary), dies at 82
- Aug 5 Bob Caruthers, American baseball pitcher/outfielder (American Association wins & ERA leader 1885, wins leader 1880; St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn Bridegrooms), dies at 47
- Aug 8 William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
- Aug 9 John Gates ("Bet-a-million" Gates), American inventor and industrialist who established the market for barbed wire fencing, dies following an unsuccessful operation to remove a throat tumor at 56
- Aug 10 Carl Lumbye, Danish composer, dies at 70
- Aug 10 James "Soup" Perkins, American jockey (Kentucky Derby 1985; winningest jockey in America 1895), dies from a heart attack at 32
- Aug 12 Jozef Israels, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 87
- Aug 12 Petrus H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformist vicar (Levenslicht), dies at 79
- Aug 16 Karl Munzinger, Swiss conductor and composer, dies at 68
- Aug 21 W. R. Wister, American cricketer (Father of American cricket, USA v Canada 1859), dies at 83
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