- Aug 11 Joe Weber, American vaudeville comedian, singer (Weber and Fields), and theatrical producer, born in New York City (d. 1942)
- Aug 13 Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter and writer (Legenden Der Zeit), born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1938)
- Aug 28 Umberto Giordano, Italian composer, chiefly of opera (was Andrea Chénier; Fedora; La cena delle beffe), born in Foggia, Apulia, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1948)
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