- Aug 1 Florence Eldridge [McKechnie], American Broadway stage and screen actress (Long Day's Journey Into Night; The Swan; Inherit The Wind), dies of a heart attack at 86
- Aug 5 Ralph Meeker [Rathgeber], American actor (Mister Roberts, Anderson Tapes, Night Stalker), dies of a heart attack at 67
- Aug 8 Alan Napier, British actor (The Sword in the Stone, Batman), dies at 85
- Aug 8 Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor and comedian (Don Ramón-El Chavo del Ocho), dies of stomach cancer at 63
- Aug 10 Adela Rogers St John "The World's Greatest Girl Reporter", American journalist, screenwriter and author (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94
- Aug 11 Anne Ramsey, American actress (Throw Mama from the Train), dies of cancer at 59
- Aug 17 Victoria Shaw, Australian-American actress (Alvarez Kelly, Westworld), dies at 53
- Aug 21 Ray Eames, American designer and filmmaker, dies at 75
- Aug 24 Leonard Frey, American stage and screen actor (Fiddler on the Roof; The Magic Christian), dies of AIDS at 49
- Aug 27 Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (The Rites of May), dies at 60
- Aug 28 Hazel Dawn [Henrietta Tout], American stage actress, singer, and violinist (The Pink Lady; The Debutante), and silent film actress (My Lady Incog), dies at 98
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