| 92641 | August 15 | Death | 1666 – Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary and astronomer (b. 1591) |
| 92642 | August 15 | Death | 1714 – Constantin Brâncoveanu, Romanian prince (b. 1654) |
| 92643 | August 15 | Death | 1728 – Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (b. 1656) |
| 92644 | August 15 | Death | 1758 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (b. 1698) |
| 92645 | August 15 | Death | 1799 – Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet and author (b. 1729) |
| 92646 | August 15 | Death | 1852 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (b. 1760) |
| 92647 | August 15 | Death | 1859 – Nathaniel Claiborne, American farmer and politician (b. 1777) |
| 92648 | August 15 | Death | 1880 – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (b. 1848) |
| 92649 | August 15 | Death | 1907 – Joseph Joachim, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1831) |
| 92650 | August 15 | Death | 1909 – Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian sociologist and journalist (b. 1866) |
| 92651 | August 15 | Death | 1917 – Thomas J. Higgins, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1831) |
| 92652 | August 15 | Death | 1925 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter and educator (b. 1878) |
| 92653 | August 15 | Death | 1928 – Anatole von Hügel, Italian ethnologist and academic, co-founded St Edmund's College (b. 1854) |
| 92654 | August 15 | Death | 1931 – Nigar Shikhlinskaya, Azerbaijani nurse (b. 1878) |
| 92655 | August 15 | Death | 1935 – Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898) |
| 92656 | August 15 | Death | 1935 – Will Rogers, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1879) |
| 92657 | August 15 | Death | 1935 – Paul Signac, French painter and author (b. 1863) |
| 92658 | August 15 | Death | 1936 – Grazia Deledda, Italian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) |
| 92659 | August 15 | Death | 1942 – Mahadev Desai, Indian activist and author (b. 1892) |
| 92660 | August 15 | Death | 1945 – Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of the Army (b. 1887) |
| 92661 | August 15 | Death | 1945 – Fred Hockley, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1923) |
| 92662 | August 15 | Death | 1951 – Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1882) |
| 92663 | August 15 | Death | 1953 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (b. 1875) |
| 92664 | August 15 | Death | 1962 – Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940) |
| 92665 | August 15 | Death | 1967 – René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898) |
| 92666 | August 15 | Death | 1971 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor and singer (b. 1887) |
| 92667 | August 15 | Death | 1975 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (b. 1920) |
| 92668 | August 15 | Death | 1975 – Clay Shaw, American businessman (b. 1913) |
| 92669 | August 15 | Death | 1981 – Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (b. 1895) |
| 92670 | August 15 | Death | 1981 – Jørgen Løvset, Norwegian gynaecologist and academic (b. 1896) |