- Aug 1 Syd Gregory, Australian cricket batsman and captain (58 Tests, 4 x 100, 8 x 50, HS 201; NSW CA), dies at 59
- Aug 2 Mae Costello [Altschuk], American actress (The Joys of a Jealous Wife), dies of heart disease at 47
- Aug 3 Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (flat phonograph record, founded Deutsche Grammophon), dies at 78
- Aug 3 Thorstein Veblen, American economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899), dies at 72
- Aug 4 Carl Auer von Welsbach, Austrian scientist and inventor of the gas mantle and metal filament light bulb, dies at 70 [1]
- Aug 5 Millicent Fawcett, English suffragist, dies at 82
- Aug 9 Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71
- Aug 10 Aletta Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor and women's suffrage activist, dies at 75
- Aug 10 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
- Aug 16 Frank Valentine der Stucken, American-Belgian composer, dies at 70
- Aug 17 Horace Alderman, American smuggler who murdered two coast guards and a secret service agent, hanged at 38
- Aug 19 Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet director (founder of the Ballets Russes), dies freom complications of diabetes at 57
- Aug 22 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey during WWI, dies at 74
- Aug 23 Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
- Aug 24 Karel van de Woestijne, Flemish writer and poet (God at Sea), dies at 51
- Aug 25 Frederick Burton, Australian cricketer (Australian wicketkeeper 1886-87), dies at 63
- Aug 26 Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat and scholar, dies at 86
- Aug 27 Herman Potočnik, Slovenian rocket scientist, dies at 36
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