- Aug 4 John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75
- Aug 5 Tom Groube, cricketer (Test for Australia 1880), dies
- Aug 13 James Oliver Curwood, American journalist and writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies at 49
- Aug 17 Horace Alderman, American murderer, hanged
- Aug 23 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Massachusetts