- Aug 10 Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37
- Aug 13 Bernhard Romberg, German cellist, composer and royal chaplain bandmaster, dies at 73
- Aug 24 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, German composer, dies at 36
- Aug 27 Ignaz von Seyfried, Austrian composer, dies at 65
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