| 94771 | August 20 | Death | 2008 – Hua Guofeng, Chinese politician, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1921) |
| 94772 | August 20 | Death | 2008 – Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American lawyer and politician (b. 1949) |
| 94773 | August 20 | Death | 2008 – Gene Upshaw, American football player (b. 1945) |
| 94774 | August 20 | Death | 2009 – Larry Knechtel, American keyboard player and bass player (Bread and The Wrecking Crew) (b. 1940) |
| 94775 | August 20 | Death | 2009 – Karla Kuskin, American author and illustrator (b. 1932) |
| 94776 | August 20 | Death | 2010 – Đặng Phong, Vietnamese economist and historian (b. 1937) |
| 94777 | August 20 | Death | 2011 – Ram Sharan Sharma, Indian historian and academic (b. 1919) |
| 94778 | August 20 | Death | 2012 – Phyllis Diller, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1917) |
| 94779 | August 20 | Death | 2012 – Virginia Dwyer, American actress (b. 1919) |
| 94780 | August 20 | Death | 2012 – Daryl Hine, Canadian-American poet and academic (b. 1936) |
| 94781 | August 20 | Death | 2012 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1916) |
| 94782 | August 20 | Death | 2012 – Len Quested, English footballer and manager (b. 1925) |
| 94783 | August 20 | Death | 2012 – Mika Yamamoto, Japanese journalist (b. 1967) |
| 94784 | August 20 | Death | 2012 – Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1955) |
| 94785 | August 20 | Death | 2013 – Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (b. 1936) |
| 94786 | August 20 | Death | 2013 – Narendra Dabholkar, Indian author and activist (b. 1945) |
| 94787 | August 20 | Death | 2013 – Don Hassler, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1929) |
| 94788 | August 20 | Death | 2013 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1925) |
| 94789 | August 20 | Death | 2013 – Marian McPartland, English-American pianist and composer (b. 1918) |
| 94790 | August 20 | Death | 2013 – John W. Morris, American general (b. 1921) |
| 94791 | August 20 | Death | 2013 – Ted Post, American director and screenwriter (b. 1918) |
| 94792 | August 20 | Death | 2014 – Anton Buslov, Russian astrophysicist and journalist (b. 1983) |
| 94793 | August 20 | Death | 2014 – Lois Mai Chan, Taiwanese-American librarian, author, and academic (b. 1934) |
| 94794 | August 20 | Death | 2014 – Boris Dubin, Russian sociologist and academic (b. 1946) |
| 94795 | August 20 | Death | 2014 – B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (b. 1918) |
| 94796 | August 20 | Death | 2014 – Buddy MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (b. 1924) |
| 94797 | August 20 | Death | 2014 – Sava Stojkov, Serbian painter and educator (b. 1925) |
| 94798 | August 20 | Death | 2014 – Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (b. 1927) |
| 94799 | August 20 | Death | 2015 – Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (b. 1922) |
| 94800 | August 20 | Death | 2015 – Paul Kibblewhite, New Zealand chemist and engineer (b. 1941) |