- Aug 1 Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, Canadian physician and founder of Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal), dies at 72
- Aug 1 John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy, dies at 64
- Aug 3 Albert Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies of tuberculosis at 41
- Aug 8 Gertrude E. Durden Rush, American composer and playwright, dies at 38
- Aug 10 Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
- Aug 12 Anna Held, Polish-born French actress and singer (A Parisian Model), dies of cancer at 46
- Aug 13 Luther Gulick, American Basketball Hall of Fame contributor (basketball pioneer; international official), dies at 53
- Aug 15 Heinrich Köselitz [Peter Gast], German composer, dies at 64
- Aug 22 Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
- Aug 29 Max Dauthendey, German painter and author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51
- Aug 31 Joe English, Irish-Flemish draftsman, painter, and soldier (designed WWI gravestones), dies of appendicitis at 36
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