| 87031 | August 1 | Death | 1938 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (b. 1862) |
| 87032 | August 1 | Death | 1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921) |
| 87033 | August 1 | Death | 1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878) |
| 87034 | August 1 | Death | 1945 – Gyula Csortos, Hungarian actor (b. 1883) |
| 87035 | August 1 | Death | 1959 – Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921) |
| 87036 | August 1 | Death | 1963 – Theodore Roethke, American author and poet (b. 1908) |
| 87037 | August 1 | Death | 1966 – Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941) |
| 87038 | August 1 | Death | 1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900) |
| 87039 | August 1 | Death | 1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress and singer (b. 1913) |
| 87040 | August 1 | Death | 1970 – Doris Fleeson, American journalist (b. 1901) |
| 87041 | August 1 | Death | 1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883) |
| 87042 | August 1 | Death | 1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (b. 1882) |
| 87043 | August 1 | Death | 1973 – Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician (b. 1893) |
| 87044 | August 1 | Death | 1974 – Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898) |
| 87045 | August 1 | Death | 1977 – Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (b. 1929) |
| 87046 | August 1 | Death | 1980 – Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (b. 1944) |
| 87047 | August 1 | Death | 1980 – Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919) |
| 87048 | August 1 | Death | 1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1923) |
| 87049 | August 1 | Death | 1982 – T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1933) |
| 87050 | August 1 | Death | 1983 – Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran activist (b. 1954) |
| 87051 | August 1 | Death | 1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937) |
| 87052 | August 1 | Death | 1990 – Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1897) |
| 87053 | August 1 | Death | 1990 – Graham Young, English serial killer (b. 1947) |
| 87054 | August 1 | Death | 1996 – Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934) |
| 87055 | August 1 | Death | 1996 – Frida Boccara, Moroccan-French singer (b. 1940) |
| 87056 | August 1 | Death | 1996 – Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
| 87057 | August 1 | Death | 1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929) |
| 87058 | August 1 | Death | 1997 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915) |
| 87059 | August 1 | Death | 1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-British actress (b. 1927) |
| 87060 | August 1 | Death | 1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bangladeshi−English historian and author (b. 1897) |