- Aug 2 Edwin Richfield, British actor (Interpol Calling, The Avengers), dies at 68
- Aug 6 Charles Arnt, actor (Double Exposure), dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
- Aug 6 Gordon Metcalfe, American actor (Monster in the Closet), dies of AIDS at 43
- Aug 7 Eva Sully Block, American vaudeville actress (Kid Millions), dies of heart failure at 88
- Aug 9 Dorothy Appleby, American actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express), dies at 84
- Aug 12 Dorothy Mackaill, British-American actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87
- Aug 12 Sara Seegar [Stone], actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76
- Aug 13 Jimmy Starr, American screenwriter, actor (The Corpse Came C.O.D.), and gossip columnist, dies at 86
- Aug 15 Nina Bara [Frances Bauer], Argentinian actress (Missile to the Moon, Space Patrol), dies of cancer at 70
- Aug 16 Pat O'Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (b. 1925)
- Aug 17 Pearl Bailey, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actress, singer and dancer (Hello, Dolly!), dies of a heart attack at 72
- Aug 17 Roderick Cook, English actor (Rockabye), dies of apparent heart attack at 58
- Aug 18 Raf Reymen, Flemish actor (Huisvuil, Het glas water), dies at 64
- Aug 22 Merlin Marston, American actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 46
- Aug 27 Raymond St Jacques, American actor, director and producer, who was the 1st African-American to hold a regular role in a western series (Simon Blake in "Rawhide"), dies of cancer at 60
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