| 89431 | August 7 | Death | 1616 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect, designed Teatro Olimpico (b. 1548) |
| 89432 | August 7 | Death | 1632 – Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford, English soldier (b. 1575) |
| 89433 | August 7 | Death | 1635 – Friedrich Spee, German poet and academic (b. 1591) |
| 89434 | August 7 | Death | 1639 – Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605) |
| 89435 | August 7 | Death | 1661 – Jin Shengtan, Chinese journalist and critic (b. 1608) |
| 89436 | August 7 | Death | 1817 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739) |
| 89437 | August 7 | Death | 1823 – Mátyás Laáb, Croatian priest and translator (b. 1746) |
| 89438 | August 7 | Death | 1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752) |
| 89439 | August 7 | Death | 1848 – Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779) |
| 89440 | August 7 | Death | 1855 – Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802) |
| 89441 | August 7 | Death | 1864 – Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823) |
| 89442 | August 7 | Death | 1893 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854) |
| 89443 | August 7 | Death | 1899 – Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837) |
| 89444 | August 7 | Death | 1900 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826) |
| 89445 | August 7 | Death | 1912 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841) |
| 89446 | August 7 | Death | 1917 – Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891) |
| 89447 | August 7 | Death | 1938 – Konstantin Stanislavsky, Russian actor and director (b. 1863) |
| 89448 | August 7 | Death | 1941 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861) |
| 89449 | August 7 | Death | 1945 – Yi Wu, Korean colonel (b. 1912) |
| 89450 | August 7 | Death | 1948 – Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879) |
| 89451 | August 7 | Death | 1953 – Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860) |
| 89452 | August 7 | Death | 1957 – Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892) |
| 89453 | August 7 | Death | 1958 – Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892) |
| 89454 | August 7 | Death | 1960 – Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentinian boxer (b. 1894) |
| 89455 | August 7 | Death | 1968 – Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (b. 1908) |
| 89456 | August 7 | Death | 1969 – Jean Bastien, French professional footballer (b. 1915) |
| 89457 | August 7 | Death | 1969 – Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (b. 1905) |
| 89458 | August 7 | Death | 1970 – Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904) |
| 89459 | August 7 | Death | 1970 – Jonathan P. Jackson, American bodyguard (b. 1953) |
| 89460 | August 7 | Death | 1972 – Joi Lansing, American model, actress, and singer (b. 1929) |