- Aug 3 Carmen Silvera, Canadian-born British actress ('Allo 'Allo!), dies of lung cancer at 80
- Aug 4 Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, Soham murder victims, murdered by Ian Kevin Huntley at 10
- Aug 5 Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
- Aug 5 Chick Hearn, American NBA broadcaster (called 3,338 LA Lakers games), dies at 85
- Aug 5 Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b. 1920)
- Aug 6 Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
- Aug 9 Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953)
- Aug 9 Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist
Michael Houser
Aug 10 Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic), dies of pancreatic cancer at 40
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- Aug 10 Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist, dies at 75
- Aug 11 Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountain climber (b. 1940)
- Aug 12 Enos Slaughter, American baseball player, dies at 86
- Aug 14 Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)
- Aug 15 Kyle Rote, NFL halfback (NY Giants 1951-61), dies at 74
- Aug 16 Jeff Corey [Arthur Zwerling], American actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men), dies at 88
- Aug 16 Abu Nidal, Palestinian political leader (b. 1937)
- Aug 16 John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
- Aug 18 Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (b. 1918)
- Aug 23 Hoyt Wilhelm [James], American Major League Baseball player and knuckleball pitcher (New York Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers), dies of heart failure at 80
- Aug 24 Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
- Aug 25 Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)
- Aug 27 Dr. Edwin Louis Cole, "Father of the Modern Day Men's Movement," Founder of the Christian Men's Network (CMN)
- Aug 29 Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (To Serve Them All My Days), dies at 82
- Aug 30 J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
- Aug 31 Lionel Hampton, American Jazz vibraphone player and actor, dies at 94
- Aug 31 George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)