- Aug 3 Carmen Silvera, Canadian-born British actress ('Allo 'Allo!), dies of lung cancer at 80
- Aug 4 Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, Soham murder victims, murdered by Ian Kevin Huntley at 10
- Aug 5 Chick Hearn, American basketball broadcaster (called 3,338 LA Lakers games), dies at 85
- Aug 5 Darrell Porter, American baseball catcher (MLB All Star 1974, 78-80; World Series MVP 1982), dies of heart failure at 50
- Aug 5 Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b. 1920)
- Aug 5 Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
- Aug 6 Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
- Aug 9 Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson), dies at 49
- Aug 9 Peter Neville, British anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist, dies at 69
- Aug 10 Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist, dies at 75
Michael Houser (1962-2002)
Aug 10 American guitarist (Widespread Panic), dies of pancreatic cancer at 40
- Aug 11 Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountain climber (b. 1940)
Enos Slaughter (1916-2002)
Aug 12 American Baseball HOF right fielder (10 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1942, 46, 56, 58; St. Louis Cardinals), dies from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at 86
- Aug 14 Dave Williams, American rock singer (Drowning Pool), dies of heart failure due to undiagnosed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at 30
- Aug 14 Larry Rivers [Grossberg], American painter (Godfather of Pop Art), dies at 78
- Aug 15 Kyle Rote, American college football HOF halfback (SMU; 4 × Pro Bowl; NY Giants) and broadcaster (WNEW, NBC, WNBC New York), dies at 74
- Aug 16 Abu Nidal, Palestinian political leader (b. 1937)
- Aug 16 Jeff Corey [Arthur Zwerling], American actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men), dies at 88
- Aug 16 John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
- Aug 18 Dean Riesner, American film and television screenwriter (Bill and Coo), dies at 83
- Aug 20 Harry Wich, Dutch painter and set designer, dies at 76
- Aug 22 Mark Bucci, American opera, theater, and film composer and lyricist (1959 Arts & Letters Award), dies at 78
Hoyt Wilhelm (1922-2002)
Aug 23 American Baseball HOF pitcher (8 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1954 NY Giants; no-hitter 1958 Baltimore Orioles; Chicago WS), dies of heart failure at 80
- Aug 24 Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
- Aug 25 Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)
- Aug 25 William Warfield, American concert bass-baritone singer and actor (Show Boat), dies from neck injuries suffered in a fall at 82
- Aug 26 Bea Barrett, American golfer (Western Open 1938), dies at 85
- Aug 26 Miguel Querol Gavalda, Spanish musicologist and composer, dies at 90
- Aug 27 Dr. Edwin Louis Cole, "Father of the Modern Day Men's Movement," Founder of the Christian Men's Network (CMN)
- Aug 29 Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (To Serve Them All My Days), dies at 82
- Aug 29 Paul Tripp, American TV host (Mr I Magination), songwriter (Tubby the Tuba), and children's book writer (Rabbi Santa Claus), dies at 91
- Aug 30 J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
- Aug 31 George Porter, British chemist (Nobel Prize, 1967), dies at 81
- Aug 31 Lionel Hampton, American Jazz vibraphone player, pianist, drummer, and actor, dies from congestive heart failure at 94
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