- Aug 1 Carl Stenborg, Swedish composer, dies at 60
- Aug 11 Henry James Pye, English poet, British Poet Laureate (1790-1813), dies at 68
- Aug 19 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer, dies at 54
- Aug 19 Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer, dies at 61
- Aug 20 Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer, dies at 74
- Aug 23 Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
- Aug 26 Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer, dies at 63
- Aug 26 Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21