- Aug 2 Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77
- Aug 4 Peter Smith, cricketer (Essex leggie, 3 wickets for England), dies
- Aug 7 Max Branch, music/radio commentator, dies at 75
- Aug 7 Max Tak, Dutch violinist/radio commentator, dies at 75
- Aug 8 Jaromir Weinberger, Czech/US composer (Czech Rhapsody), dies at 71
- Aug 9 Anton Walbrook [Adolf Wohlbrook], Austrian actor (Laura, I Accuse), dies of heart attack at 66
- Aug 9 Joe Orton, English actor/playwright (Leaf, Murdered), dies at 34
- Aug 10 John Francis Larchet, composer, dies at 83
- Aug 13 Jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87
- Aug 14 Bob Anderson, British racing driver (b. 1931)
- Aug 15 René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter, dies at 68
- Aug 19 Carl Wilhelm de Vries, Dutch jurist, dies at 84
- Aug 19 Isaac Deutscher, Polish-English historian (Stalin/Trotsky biography), dies at 60
- Aug 19 Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born American inventor and sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo), dies at 83
- Aug 22 Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
- Aug 23 Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
- Aug 24 Amanda Randolph, actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
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Aug 24 Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), dies at 85
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- Aug 25 George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated
- Aug 25 Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
- Aug 26 Andres Sas, Belgian Peruvian composer, dies at 67
- Aug 26 Dilawar Hussain, cricketer (Indian wicketkeeper in the 1930's), dies
- Aug 27 Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose at 32
- Aug 27 Henri-Georges Adam, French painter/cartoonist/sculptor, dies at 63
- Aug 28 Charles Darrow, US inventor of Monopoly, dies
- Aug 31 Ilja G Ehrenburg, Russian poet/writer (9th wave), dies at 76
- Aug 31 Michael Fitzmaurice, American radio actor (Superman, Reported Missing, 14 Hours), dies of lymphoma at 59