Manuel L. Quezon
Aug 1 Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, Second President of Philippines (1935-42), dies of tuberculosis at 65
Manuel L. Quezon
- Aug 3 Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz
- Aug 3 Felka Platek, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz
- Aug 5 Maurice Turnbull, cricketer (England)/rugby (Wales), dies
- Aug 8 Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot), hanged at 62
- Aug 8 Michael Wittman, German soldier and tank ace, dies at 30
- Aug 10 Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, German aristocrat, attempted to assassinate Hitler, executed by Nazi regime at 39
- Aug 12 Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., brother of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1915)
- Aug 16 Roman Padlewski, composer, dies at 28
- Aug 17 John Trumble, cricketer (brother of Hugh 7 Tests 1885-86), dies
- Aug 18 Ernst "Teddy" Thalmann, leader of German KPD, dies
- Aug 18 Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer (Gouverneurs de la Rosée), dies at 37
- Aug 19 Henry Wood, British conductor associated with London's promenade "Proms" concerts (Gentle Art of Singing, My Life of Music), dies following an illness at 75
- Aug 19 Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62
- Aug 22 Raymond Aimos, actor (Golem, Mayerling, La Bandera), dies at 55
- Aug 23 Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer, dies at 63
- Aug 25 Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death
- Aug 25 Mussa Dshalil, writer, dies
- Aug 26 Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (b. 1909)
- Aug 27 Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
- Aug 28 Ernst Thälmann, German communist presidential candidate, dies at 58
- Aug 30 Morten Nielsen, Danish resistance fighter, dies