| 97171 | August 26 | Death | 1981 – Roger Nash Baldwin, American union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884) |
| 97172 | August 26 | Death | 1981 – Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (The Weavers) (b. 1914) |
| 97173 | August 26 | Death | 1986 – Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923) |
| 97174 | August 26 | Death | 1987 – John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (b. 1919) |
| 97175 | August 26 | Death | 1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
| 97176 | August 26 | Death | 1988 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957) |
| 97177 | August 26 | Death | 1989 – Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903) |
| 97178 | August 26 | Death | 1992 – Bob de Moor, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1925) |
| 97179 | August 26 | Death | 1993 – Reima Pietilä, Finnish architect, co-designed the Kaleva Church (b. 1923) |
| 97180 | August 26 | Death | 1995 – John Brunner, English-Scottish author and poet (b. 1934) |
| 97181 | August 26 | Death | 1998 – Jaanus Kuum, Estonian-Norwegian cyclist (b. 1964) |
| 97182 | August 26 | Death | 1998 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |
| 97183 | August 26 | Death | 2000 – Akbar Adibi, Iranian engineer and academic (b. 1939) |
| 97184 | August 26 | Death | 2001 – Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904) |
| 97185 | August 26 | Death | 2001 – Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1940) |
| 97186 | August 26 | Death | 2003 – Jim Wacker, American football player and coach (b. 1937) |
| 97187 | August 26 | Death | 2004 – Laura Branigan, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1952) |
| 97188 | August 26 | Death | 2005 – Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (Voivod) (b. 1960) |
| 97189 | August 26 | Death | 2005 – Robert Denning, American art collector and interior designer (b. 1927) |
| 97190 | August 26 | Death | 2006 – Rainer Barzel, Polish-German lawyer and politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations (b. 1924) |
| 97191 | August 26 | Death | 2006 – Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer and coach (b. 1926) |
| 97192 | August 26 | Death | 2007 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger jurist and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1928) |
| 97193 | August 26 | Death | 2007 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino actor and director (b. 1935) |
| 97194 | August 26 | Death | 2009 – Sadie Corré, English actress and dancer (b. 1918) |
| 97195 | August 26 | Death | 2009 – Dominick Dunne, American journalist and novelist (b. 1925) |
| 97196 | August 26 | Death | 2010 – Raimon Panikkar, Catalan priest and scholar (b. 1918) |
| 97197 | August 26 | Death | 2011 – George Band, Taiwanese-English mountaineer and author (b. 1929) |
| 97198 | August 26 | Death | 2011 – Patrick C. Fischer, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935) |
| 97199 | August 26 | Death | 2011 – John McAleese, Scottish sergeant (b. 1949) |
| 97200 | August 26 | Death | 2012 – Russ Alben, American composer and businessman (b. 1929) |