- Aug 2 Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian author and mystic, dies at 55
- Aug 3 Eugust Enna, composer, dies at 80
- Aug 11 Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)
- Aug 16 Ron Oxenham, cricketer (7 Tests for Australia, 14 wickets), dies
- Aug 19 Johannes Marinus Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, dies at 70
- Aug 23 Sidney Coe Howard, American playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48
- Aug 24 W H Moule, cricketer (Australia v England 1880)/High Court judge, dies
- Aug 25 Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)