- Aug 2 Joan Lucaz, Dutch journalist and patriot (d. 1807)
- Aug 7 Daniel Albert Wyttenbach, German-Swiss classical scholar and historian, born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1820)
- Aug 8 Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch poet of children's poems (Proeve van kleine gedigen voor Kinder), born in Gouda, The Netherlands (d. 1803)