- Aug 6 Antonin Vranicky, Czech composer and violinist, dies at 59
- Aug 6 Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Duchess of York and Albany, dies at 53
- Aug 7 Élisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca and sister of Napoleon, dies at 43
- Aug 11 János Lavotta, Hungarian violinist and composer, dies at 56
- Aug 28 Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)