- Aug 1 Loudi Nijhoff, Dutch actress (Alicia, Van Geluk Gesproken), dies
- Aug 1 Robert L. "Bob" Talley, American jazz and blues pianist and composer, dies at 75
- Aug 2 Brian Smith, Canadian sportscaster and NHL player, dies at 54 after being shot the previous day
- Aug 2 Colin Falkland Gray, New Zealand fighter ace of the Second World War, dies at 80
- Aug 2 Irwin Bazelon, American composer (Duo for Viola), dies at 73
- Aug 3 Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields, American jazz drummer, dies at 79
- Aug 3 Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
- Aug 3 Harry Craft, American MLB baseball player and manager, dies at 80
- Aug 3 Ida Lupino, British-American actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) and director (The Hitch-Hiker), dies from a stoke while undergoing cancer treatment at 77
- Aug 3 Marcus Chenault, American killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies in prison at 54
- Aug 4 Dick Bartell, American baseball shortstop (MLB All Star 1933, 37; Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 87
- Aug 4 J. Howard Marshall [James Howard Marshall II], American businessman and husband of Anna Nicole Smith, dies at 90
- Aug 5 Agha Hasan Abedi, Pakistani banker and felon (BCCI), dies at 73
- Aug 5 Anthony Barber Doncaster, English bookseller, dies at 81
- Aug 6 André Fleury, French organist and composer, dies at 92
- Aug 6 Paul James Nunn, mountaineer, dies at 52
- Aug 6 Youly Algaroff, Russian-French ballet dancer, dies at 77
- Aug 7 Brigid Brophy, British novelist (Hackenfeller's Ape) and campaigner, dies at 66
- Aug 7 Tom Scott, Scottish poet (Sea Dirge: A Mither's Keenin), dies at 77
- Aug 8 David Begelman, American film producer (Columbia Pictures embezzlement scandal), dies at 73
Jerry Garcia (1942-1995)
Aug 9 American rock and bluegrass guitarist, singer-songwriter (Grateful Dead - "Uncle John's Band"; "Ripple"; "Brokedown Palace"), and painter, dies of a heart attack at 53
- Aug 9 John Schofield, English BBC journalist, shot to death in Croatia at 29
- Aug 9 Willem Noordhoek, Dutch photographer, dies at 78
- Aug 10 Donald Bisset, British children book writer, illustrator (Upside Down Stories) and actor (Battle of the Sexes), dies of natural causes at 84
- Aug 10 Fay Honey Knopp, American activist (founded a Quaker ministry for men and women in prisons), dies of complications from ovarian cancer at 76
- Aug 10 Peter Lancelot Williams, English dance journalist, dies at 81
- Aug 11 (Wonga) Phil Harris], American singer, actor (The Jungle Book; The Aristocrats; Robin Hood), comedian, and orchestra leader (The Jack Benny Program; The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show), dies of a heart attack at 91
- Aug 11 Alonzo Church, American mathematician whose work provided foundation for computer science, dies at 92
- Aug 11 Douglas John Gorman, British businessman (Chairman of CMG (Computer Management Group)), dies at 58
- Aug 11 Herbert Sumsion, British organist (Gloucester Cathedral, 1928-67), conductor, and composer, dies at 96
- Aug 11 Kenneth Lo [Lo Hsiao Chien], Chinese-British food writer, restaurateur, and television personality dies at 81
- Aug 11 Wilbur Stark, American film screenwriter, director, and producer (Vmpire; Circus The Thing), dies at 83
- Aug 12 Frank Cvitanovich, Canadian filmmaker, dies at 68
- Aug 13 Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer and 1st woman to climb Mount Everest alone without bottled oxygen (1995), dies in a storm on top of K2 summit, Pakistan at 33
- Aug 13 Jan Křesadlo, Czech-British psychologist and writer, dies at 68
Mickey Mantle (1931-1995)
Aug 13 American Baseball HOF outfielder (1956 Triple Crown; 20 x MLB All Star; 7 × World Series; 3 × AL MVP; NY Yankees), dies of liver cancer at 63
- Aug 13 Per-Jakez Helias, French Breton writer (Le Cheval d'orgueil) and actor, dies at 81
- Aug 14 Joseph Fattorini, businessman, dies at 82
- Aug 15 Erbie Bowser, American blues and jazz pianist, dies at 77
- Aug 15 Humphrey Sims Moore, British pacifist and journalist (founder of Peace News), dies at 86
- Aug 15 Jesse Thomas 'Babyface', American blues singer, dies at 84
- Aug 16 J. P. McCarthy, American radio personality (WJR Detroit), dies at 62
- Aug 16 John Cameron Swayze, American newscaster (The Hindenberg), and spokesperson (Timex), dies at 89
- Aug 16 Oveta Culp Hobby, American government official (US Secretary of Health) and newspaper publisher (Houston Post), dies at 90
- Aug 16 Robert "Bobby" Debarge, R&B Musician, dies of AIDS at 39
- Aug 17 "Wild Bill" Davis, American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger, dies at 76
- Aug 17 David Warrilow, English actor (Simon, Radio Days, Barton Fink), dies at 60
- Aug 17 Howard Koch, American playwright and screenwriter, dies at 92
- Aug 17 Marjorie Sykes, British educator, peace activist, and Indian independence campaigner, dies at 90
- Aug 17 Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer, dies at 62
- Aug 18 Andrew Wilkinson, British pediatrician and the first Professor of Paediatric Surgery in the UK, dies at 81
- Aug 18 James Maxwell, American actor and director (The Portrait of a Lady, The Shadow of the Tower, The Evil of Frankenstein), dies at 66
- Aug 19 Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70
- Aug 19 Pierre Schaeffer, French electronics engineer and composer, dies at 85
- Aug 20 Hugo Pratt, graphic artist, dies at 68
- Aug 20 John Gilmore, American jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, percussionist, and bandleader (Sun Ra Arketsra), dies of emphysema at 63
- Aug 20 Orville "Red" Rhodes, American session pedal steel guitarist, dies at 64
- Aug 20 Paul Foster, American gospel singer (The Soul Stirrers), dies at 75
- Aug 20 Vladimír Škutina, Czechoslovakian writer and actor (Hvezda jede na jih), dies of cancer at 64
- Aug 20 William Kennedy, baseball player, dies at 76
- Aug 21 Anatole Fistoulari, Ukrainian conductor, dies at 88
- Aug 21 Hilda Beatritz Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara, dies at 39
- Aug 21 James Truitte, American ballet dancer (Lester Horton; Alvin Ailley), dies at 72
- Aug 21 Ken Rickards, West Indies cricketer (104 runs at 34 66 for WI 1948-52), dies at 71
- Aug 21 Len Martin, Australian sports broadcaster (BBC Grandstand), dies at 76
- Aug 21 Manfred Donike, German cyclist and chemist drug test pioneer, dies at 61
- Aug 21 Nanni Loy, Italian film director (The Four Days of Naples), dies at 69
- Aug 21 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian physicist (Nobel Prize 1983 for work on structure and evolution of the stars), dies at 84
- Aug 22 Jose Antonio Giron, Spanish politician, dies at 83
- Aug 23 Adele Simpson, American fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1946), dies at 91
- Aug 23 Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photojournalist (V-J Day in Times Square), dies at 96
- Aug 23 Dwayne Goettel, Canadian keyboardist and industrial-electronic music composer (Skinny Puppy), dies of a heroin overdose at 31
- Aug 23 Gordon White, British business tycoon and co-founder of corporate raider Hanson Group, dies at 72
- Aug 23 Hedda J. Garza, American writer and political activist, dies at 66
- Aug 23 James Pilditch, designer, dies at 66
- Aug 23 Johnny Carey, Irish professional footballer, dies at 76
- Aug 23 Leslie Graves, American actress (Brenda-Capitol, Death Wish 2), dies of AIDS at 35
- Aug 24 Erich Geiringer, New Zealand general practitioner campaigner (founder of the New Zealand Medical Association), dies at 78
- Aug 24 Gary Crosby, American singer (with Bing -"Play a Simple Melody"), and actor (The Bill Dana Show -"Eddie"; Mardi Gras), dies of lung cancer at 62
- Aug 25 Doug Stegmeyer, American rock bassist (Billy Joel Band, 1976-87), dies of a self-inflicted gun wound at 43
- Aug 25 John Brunner, Britsih sci-fi author (100th Millennium), dies at 60
- Aug 25 R B Hudmon, R&B/Soul Singer, dies at 41
- Aug 26 Annie Kriegel, French historian of communist history, dies at 68
- Aug 26 Evelyn Wood, American speed reading guru, dies at 86
- Aug 26 John Costello, British military historian, dies at 52
- Aug 26 Olimi III, African king of Toro (Uganda), dies at 49
- Aug 26 Ronnie White, American singer (The Miracles - "Shop Around"), dies of leukemia at 57
- Aug 27 Dick Bentley, Australian comedian and actor (The Glums), dies at 88
- Aug 27 Marty Paich, American jazz pianist, conductor, producer and arranger (Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson), dies of colon cancer at 70
- Aug 28 Carl Ronald Giles, British cartoonist (Daily Express), dies at 78
- Aug 28 Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)
- Aug 28 Michael Ende, German writer (The Neverending Story), dies at 65
- Aug 28 Michael VerMeulen, American journalist and magazine editor (British GQ), dies at 38
- Aug 29 Frank Perry, American film director (Diary of Mad Housewife, David & Lisa), dies at 65
- Aug 29 Harry Broadhurst, British Royal Air Force commander and flying ace of the Second World War, dies at 89
- Aug 29 Jack Stoddart, designer/socialist, dies at 70
- Aug 29 Pierre Max Dubois, French composer (Turlututu; Voulez-vous jouer au cirque?), conductor, and music educator, dies at 65
- Aug 29 Thomas Strittmatter, German writer, dies at 33
- Aug 30 Fischer Black, American economist and one of the authors of the Black–Scholes equation, dies of throat cancer at 57
- Aug 30 Pattie Menzies, Australian wife of PM Robert Menzies, dies at 96
- Aug 30 Sterling Morrison, American musician (Velvet Underground), dies at 53
- Aug 30 Thomas Chalmers, British broadcaster, dies at 82
- Aug 31 Beant Singh, Prime Minister of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73
- Aug 31 David Farrar, English actor (Beat Girl, I Accuse, Watusi), dies at 87
- Aug 31 David Holloway, British literary editor (The Daily Telegraph), dies at 71
- Aug 31 Horst Janssen, German graphic artist and printmaker, dies at 65
- Aug 31 John Erik Jonsson, American businessman and Mayor of Dallas, dies at 93
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