- Aug 2 Marin Sais, American actress (The Pony Express Girl), born in San Rafael, California (d. 1971)
- Aug 5 Erich Kleiber, Austrian-Argentine conductor (Teatro Colón, 1937-49; NBC Symphony, 1947-48), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1956)
- Aug 12 Al Goodman, Russian-American orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), born in Nikopol, Russia (d. 1972)
- Aug 22 Cecil Kellaway, South African-American stage and screen character actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; The Luck of the Irish), born in Cape Town, Cape Colony (now South Africa) (d. 1973)
- Aug 31 Margaret Landis, American silent movie actress (A Million to Burn; The Empire Builders), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1981)
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