| 89881 | August 8 | Death | 1981 – Thomas McElwee, Irish activist (b. 1957) |
| 89882 | August 8 | Death | 1982 – Eric Brandon, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1920) |
| 89883 | August 8 | Death | 1984 – Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1921) |
| 89884 | August 8 | Death | 1984 – Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (b. 1928) |
| 89885 | August 8 | Death | 1985 – Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer (b. 1906) |
| 89886 | August 8 | Death | 1987 – Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician and physicist (b. 1903) |
| 89887 | August 8 | Death | 1988 – Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914) |
| 89888 | August 8 | Death | 1988 – Alan Napier, English-American actor (b. 1903) |
| 89889 | August 8 | Death | 1991 – Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (b. 1972) |
| 89890 | August 8 | Death | 1991 – James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930) |
| 89891 | August 8 | Death | 1992 – Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (b. 1899) |
| 89892 | August 8 | Death | 1992 – John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965) |
| 89893 | August 8 | Death | 1996 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) |
| 89894 | August 8 | Death | 1996 – Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist (b. 1927) |
| 89895 | August 8 | Death | 1998 – Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist (b. 1968) |
| 89896 | August 8 | Death | 2003 – Dirk Hoogendam, Dutch-German SS officer (b. 1922) |
| 89897 | August 8 | Death | 2003 – Falaba Issa Traoré, Malian director and playwright (b. 1930) |
| 89898 | August 8 | Death | 2004 – Leon Golub, American painter and academic (b. 1922) |
| 89899 | August 8 | Death | 2004 – Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (b. 1934) |
| 89900 | August 8 | Death | 2004 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (b. 1907) |
| 89901 | August 8 | Death | 2005 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress and author (b. 1922) |
| 89902 | August 8 | Death | 2005 – Ahmed Deedat, South African missionary and author (b. 1918) |
| 89903 | August 8 | Death | 2005 – John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (b. 1918) |
| 89904 | August 8 | Death | 2005 – Gene Mauch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1925) |
| 89905 | August 8 | Death | 2005 – Dean Rockwell, American commander, wrestler, and coach (b. 1912) |
| 89906 | August 8 | Death | 2005 – Monica Sjöö, Swedish-English painter (b. 1938) |
| 89907 | August 8 | Death | 2005 – Ilse Werner, Indonesian-German actress and singer (b. 1921) |
| 89908 | August 8 | Death | 2007 – Ma Lik, Chinese journalist and politician (b. 1952) |
| 89909 | August 8 | Death | 2007 – Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917) |
| 89910 | August 8 | Death | 2008 – Orville Moody, American golfer (b. 1933) |