| 87001 | August 1 | Death | 946 – Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah, Abbasid vizier (b. 859) |
| 87002 | August 1 | Death | 1137 – Louis VI of France (b. 1081) |
| 87003 | August 1 | Death | 1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179) |
| 87004 | August 1 | Death | 1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian archbishop and explorer (b. 1180) |
| 87005 | August 1 | Death | 1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1341) |
| 87006 | August 1 | Death | 1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian author and educator (b. 1406) |
| 87007 | August 1 | Death | 1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1386) |
| 87008 | August 1 | Death | 1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian and scholar (b. 1493) |
| 87009 | August 1 | Death | 1543 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1488) |
| 87010 | August 1 | Death | 1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish archbishop, historian, and cartographer (b. 1490) |
| 87011 | August 1 | Death | 1580 – Albrecht Giese, Polish-German politician and diplomat (b. 1524) |
| 87012 | August 1 | Death | 1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567) |
| 87013 | August 1 | Death | 1714 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665) |
| 87014 | August 1 | Death | 1787 – Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1696) |
| 87015 | August 1 | Death | 1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735) |
| 87016 | August 1 | Death | 1796 – Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet, English colonel and politician (b. 1720) |
| 87017 | August 1 | Death | 1798 – François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (b. 1753) |
| 87018 | August 1 | Death | 1807 – John Boorman, English cricketer (b. c. 1754) |
| 87019 | August 1 | Death | 1807 – John Walker, English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (b. 1732) |
| 87020 | August 1 | Death | 1812 – Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763) |
| 87021 | August 1 | Death | 1851 – William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (b. 1775) |
| 87022 | August 1 | Death | 1866 – John Ross, American tribal chief (b. 1790) |
| 87023 | August 1 | Death | 1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853) |
| 87024 | August 1 | Death | 1911 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852) |
| 87025 | August 1 | Death | 1911 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American lawyer and politician (b. 1843) |
| 87026 | August 1 | Death | 1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854) |
| 87027 | August 1 | Death | 1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer and journalist (b. 1856) |
| 87028 | August 1 | Death | 1922 – Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856) |
| 87029 | August 1 | Death | 1929 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870) |
| 87030 | August 1 | Death | 1938 – John Aasen, American actor (b. 1890) |