- Aug 5 Heinrich Stiehl, German organist and composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Lübeck (d. 1886)
- Aug 15 Eduard de Hartog, Dutch composer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1909)
- Aug 21 Otto Goldschmidt, German composer, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (now Germany) (d. 1907)
- Aug 28 Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor, born in Meissen, Germany (d. 1908)
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