- Aug 5 Chick Hearn, American basketball broadcaster (called 3,338 LA Lakers games), dies at 85
- Aug 5 Darrell Porter, American baseball catcher (MLB All Star 1974, 78-80; World Series MVP 1982), dies of heart failure at 50
Enos Slaughter (1916-2002)
Aug 12 American Baseball HOF right fielder (10 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1942, 46, 56, 58; St. Louis Cardinals), dies from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at 86
Hoyt Wilhelm (1922-2002)
Aug 23 American Baseball HOF pitcher (8 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1954 NY Giants; no-hitter 1958 Baltimore Orioles; Chicago WS), dies of heart failure at 80
- Aug 26 Bea Barrett, American golfer (Western Open 1938), dies at 85