- Aug 3 Karl Georg Lickl, Austrian pianist, physharmonica (type of harmonium) player, and composer, dies at 75
- Aug 3 William Butler Ogden, American real estate investor, politician (1st Mayor of Chicago, 1837-38), railroad executive (president of Union Pacific, 1862-63), and philanthropist, dies at 72
Brigham Young
Aug 29 Brigham Young, 2nd president of Latter-day Saints, dies of peritonitis at 76
- Aug 30 Raphael Semmes, American Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), dies at 67