Oliver Hardy (1892-1957)
Aug 7 American comedian (Laurel & Hardy films), dies at 65
- Aug 9 Carl Clauberg, German Nazi doctor (gynecologist, specializing in mass sterilization and other experiments on humans at Auschwitz concentration camp), dies at 58
- Aug 16 Irving Langmuir, American chemist and engineer (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1932, invented gas-filled incandescent lamp), dies at 76
- Aug 18 Wawrzyniec Żuławski, Polish composer, dies during an alpine rescue mission on Mont Blanc, in the Alps, at 41
- Aug 19 Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
- Aug 19 David Bomberg, English painter, dies at 66
- Aug 21 Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer, dies at 68
- Aug 21 Nels Stewart, Canadian Hockey HOF center (Stanley Cup 1925 Montreal Maroons; Hart Memorial Trophy 1926, 30), dies at 57
- Aug 23 Eugène Schueller, French chemist, founder of L'Oréal, dies at 76
- Aug 24 Albert Edward Sammons, British violinist, and composer (Phantasy Quartet), dies at 71
- Aug 24 Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, British priest, broadcaster and author (Viaduct Murder), dies at 69
- Aug 25 Leo Perutz, Austrian writer and mathematician, dies at 74
- Aug 26 Umberto Saba, Italian writer, dies at 74
- Aug 29 Louis Diat, French-American chef (Ritz-Carlton Hotel NYC, 1910-51), culinary writer and cookbook author, credited with inventing vichyssoise soup, dies at 72
- Aug 30 Harold Gatty, Australian aviator, navigator with Wiley Post, dies of a stroke at 54
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