- Aug 2 Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, dies at 54
- Aug 2 Rupprecht, last crown prince of Bavaria and German fieldmarshall during WWI, dies at 86
- Aug 2 Wallace Stevens, American poet (The Auroras of Autumn), dies at 75
- Aug 3 Lida Durdikova, Czech children's author (Children with extinguished eyes) and publisher (Père Castor), dies at 56
- Aug 5 Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer and actress (Down Argentine Way), dies of a heart attack at 46
- Aug 5 Suzan (Susan) Ball, American actress, dies of cancer at 21
- Aug 9 Marion Eugene Bauer, American composer, dies at 57
- Aug 12 James B. Sumner, American chemist (Nobel 1946 - discovered that enzymes can be crystallized), dies at 67
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
Aug 12 German novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929), dies at 80
- Aug 14 Fiske Kimball, American architect and art historian, dies at 66
- Aug 14 Herbert Putnam, American Librarian of Congress, dies at 93
- Aug 23 Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
- Aug 26 Sol White, American Baseball HOF executive (Philadelphia Giants 4 x consecutive black C'ships 1904–1907), dies at 87
- Aug 27 Joachim Wach, philosopher/sociologist (Sociology of Religion), dies
- Aug 28 Bob Gordon, American cool jazz baritone saxophonist, dies in a car accident at 27
Emmett Till (1941-1955)
Aug 28 American lynching victim, kidnapped in Money, Mississippi and lynched at 14
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