- Aug 8 William Miller, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 89
- Aug 15 Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866)
- Aug 17 Richard Hoffman, English-American composer, dies at 78
- Aug 19 Rembt Tobias Hugo Pieter Liebrecht Alexander of Boneval Faure, Dutch lawyer and Member of parliament, dies at 83
- Aug 29 Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies at 67