Strother Martin
Aug 1 Strother Martin, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot), dies of heart attack at 61
- Aug 1 Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
- Aug 2 Verdun Scott, New Zealand cricket batsman, rugby league utility back (10 Tests; 1 cap), dies at 64
- Aug 4 Diego Fabbri, Italian playwright and leader (Vatican movie bureau), dies at 69
- Aug 5 Harold Runnels, American politician (b. 1924)
- Aug 6 Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, dies at 66
- Aug 8 Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician, dies at 63
- Aug 8 Jacqueline Cochran, US pilot and 1st woman to break sound barrier, dies at 74
- Aug 8 Paul Triquet, Canadian military officer, dies at 70
- Aug 9 Elliott Nugent, American director and actor, dies at 83
- Aug 9 Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41
- Aug 9 P K "Perker" Lee, Australian cricketer (Australian bowler 1931-33, 2 Tests), dies at 75
- Aug 11 Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
- Aug 11 Willi Forst, Austrian actor and director (Bel Amis, Operette, Vienna Blood), dies at 77
- Aug 14 Dorothy Stratten [Hoogstraten], Canadian playmate (August, 1979), model and actress (Galixina), murdered by estranged husband and manager Paul Snider at 20
- Aug 18 Norman Cazden, American composer, educator, and music theorist, dies at 65
- Aug 19 Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91
- Aug 20 Joe Dassin, French-American singer (Les Champs-Élysées), dies at 41
- Aug 21 Jack Cheetham, South African cricket batsman and captain (24 Tests; Western Province), dies at 60
- Aug 22 James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer, dies of a stroke at 81
- Aug 22 Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz), dies at 89
- Aug 23 Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77
- Aug 24 Yootha Joyce, British actress (Man About the House, George and Mildred), dies of liver failure at 53
- Aug 24 Frederick A. Fox, American classical composer (Nightscenes; Shaking The Pumpkin),and educator (Indiana University, 1974-94), dies at 80
- Aug 25 Gower Champion, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 60
- Aug 26 Miliza Korjus, Polish-American actress (Great Waltz), dies at 71
- Aug 26 Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
- Aug 26 Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
- Aug 26 Jimmy Forrest, American jazz saxophonist (Night Train), dies at 60
- Aug 27 Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
- Aug 27 Douglas Kenney, American humorist (co-founded the magazine National Lampoon), dies at 33