- Aug 7 Abner Powell, American baseball utility, team owner and executive (first to use infield tarpaulin after rain), dies at 92
- Aug 11 Ludwig Strauss, German-Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies at 60
- Aug 11 Tazio Nuvolari, Italian auto racer (72 x major race wins; 24 Hours of Le Mans 1933; European Championship 1932), dies from a stroke at 60
- Aug 13 Dmitri Arakishvili, Soviet and Georgian composer, dies at 80
- Aug 15 Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
- Aug 17 Johannes Tielrooy, Dutch literary professor (French Living Lesson), dies at 66
- Aug 17 Bannister Fletcher, English architect and architectural historian (A History of Architecture), dies at 87
- Aug 22 Jim Tabor, American MLB 3rd baseman (2 x grand slams in one game), dies of a heart attack at 36
- Aug 27 Nicolai Berezowsky, Russian-American composer, dies at 53
- Aug 30 Dimitar Nenov, Bulgarian composer, pianist and architect, dies at 51