- Aug 1 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, early Indian nationalist leader, dies at 64
- Aug 2 Ormer Locklear, American movie stunt pilot (The Great Air Robbery), dies at 28
- Aug 4 Vladimir Rebikov, Russian pianist and composer, dies at 54
- Aug 6 Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890)
- Aug 10 Ádám Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician, dies at 84
- Aug 12 Louisa Lawson, Australian writer, publisher (The Dawn) and suffragist who founded The Dawn Club, dies at 72
- Aug 16 Sir Norman Lockyer, English physicist, co-founder of helium gas, founder and editor of "Nature" magazinem dies at 84
- Aug 17 Ray Chapman, American baseball shortstop (Cleveland Indians), dies after being hit in the head by a pitch from NY Yankees Carl Mays at 29
- Aug 22 Anders Zorn, Swedish painter, etcher and sculptor (Gustavus Vasa), dies at 60
- Aug 31 Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist, psychologist and philosopher, dies at 88
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