- Aug 6 Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
- Aug 7 Alfredo Catalani, Italian operatic composer, dies at 39
- Aug 16 Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist, dies at 77
- Aug 17 Aleksey Apukhtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [NS=8/29]
- Aug 22 Ernst II, duke of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93) and composer, dies at 75 (b. 1818)
- Aug 29 Aleksey Apukhtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17]