| 88651 | August 5 | Death | 1935 – David Townsend, American art director and set designer (b. 1891) |
| 88652 | August 5 | Death | 1939 – Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865) |
| 88653 | August 5 | Death | 1944 – Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1906) |
| 88654 | August 5 | Death | 1946 – Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863) |
| 88655 | August 5 | Death | 1948 – Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1871) |
| 88656 | August 5 | Death | 1952 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917) |
| 88657 | August 5 | Death | 1955 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909) |
| 88658 | August 5 | Death | 1957 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) |
| 88659 | August 5 | Death | 1959 – Edgar Guest, English-American journalist and poet (b. 1881) |
| 88660 | August 5 | Death | 1960 – Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874) |
| 88661 | August 5 | Death | 1962 – Marilyn Monroe, American model, actress, and singer (b. 1926) |
| 88662 | August 5 | Death | 1963 – Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898) |
| 88663 | August 5 | Death | 1964 – Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1886) |
| 88664 | August 5 | Death | 1967 – György Bródy, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1908) |
| 88665 | August 5 | Death | 1968 – Luther Perkins, American guitarist (The Tennessee Three) (b. 1928) |
| 88666 | August 5 | Death | 1978 – Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (b. 1893) |
| 88667 | August 5 | Death | 1980 – Harold L. Runnels, American soldier and politician (b. 1924) |
| 88668 | August 5 | Death | 1983 – Judy Canova, American actress and singer (b. 1913) |
| 88669 | August 5 | Death | 1983 – Joan Robinson, English economist and author (b. 1903) |
| 88670 | August 5 | Death | 1984 – Richard Burton, Welsh-Swiss actor and producer (b. 1925) |
| 88671 | August 5 | Death | 1985 – Arnold Horween, American football player and coach (b. 1898) |
| 88672 | August 5 | Death | 1987 – Georg Gaßmann, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1910) |
| 88673 | August 5 | Death | 1991 – Paul Brown, American football player and coach (b. 1908) |
| 88674 | August 5 | Death | 1991 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, founded Honda (b. 1906) |
| 88675 | August 5 | Death | 1992 – Jeff Porcaro, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Toto and Clover) (b. 1954) |
| 88676 | August 5 | Death | 1994 – Menachem Avidom, Israeli composer (b. 1908) |
| 88677 | August 5 | Death | 1994 – Alain de Changy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1922) |
| 88678 | August 5 | Death | 1998 – Otto Kretschmer, German commander (b. 1912) |
| 88679 | August 5 | Death | 1998 – Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian commander and politician, 36th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1911) |
| 88680 | August 5 | Death | 2000 – Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian journalist and activist (b. 1920) |