Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
Aug 11 American expressionist painter (Lavender Mist), dies at 44 in a car accident in East Hampton
- Aug 13 Harry Donnan, Australian cricketer (5 Tests for Australia 1891-96), dies at 91
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
Aug 14 German poet and playwright (Mother Courage), dies of a heart attack at 58
Bela Lugosi (1882-1956)
Aug 16 Austrian actor (Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space), dies of a heart attack at 73
- Aug 24 Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (Ugetsu), dies of leukemia at 58
- Aug 25 Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (Kinsey Report), dies from a heart ailment and pneumonia at 62
- Aug 26 Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist, dies at 75
- Aug 30 Anita Donostia [Jose Antonio de Donostia], Spanish composer, musicologist and priest, dies at 70
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