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=== August ===
* August – [[Joseph Abbott (New South Wales politician)|Joseph Abbott]], Australian wool-broker and politician (d. [[1903]])<ref>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |last=Teale |first=Ruth |title=Abbott, Joseph (1843–1903) |id2=abbott-joseph-2856 |accessdate=27 August 2014}}</ref>
* [[August 1]] – [[Robert Todd Lincoln]], American politician, businessman, first son of U.S. President [[Abraham Lincoln]] (d. [[1926]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Florimond Van Duyse]], Belgian lawyer, composer and musicologist (d. [[1910]])
* [[August 5]] – [[James Scott Skinner]], Scottish violinist and composer (d. [[1927]])
* [[August 7]] – [[Charles Warren Stoddard]], American author (d. [[1909]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Alfred Duclos DeCelles]], Canadian journalist (d. [[1925]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Adolf Mayer]], [[Germany|German]] [[Agricultural chemistry|agricultural chemist]] (d. [[1942]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Joseph McKenna]], American politician, [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1926]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Louis Gathmann]], [[German American]] inventor (d. [[1917]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz]], Prussian field marshal (d. [[1916]])
* [[August 15]] – [[Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major]], Scottish-born Swiss physician (d. [[1923]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Mariano Rampolla]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (d. [[1913]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Moritz Brasch]], German philosopher (d. [[1895]])
* [[August 19]] – [[C. I. Scofield]], American theologian (d. [[1921]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Christina Nilsson]], Swedish operatic soprano (d. [[1921]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Marion McCarrell Scott]], American educator (d. [[1922]])
* [[August 22]] – [[John M. Thome]], American astronomer (d. [[1908]])
* [[August 23]] – [[William Southam]], Canadian newspaper publisher (d. [[1932]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Ernst Wülcker]], German archivist and lexicographer (d. [[1895]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Victor Gardthausen]], German ancient historian (d. [[1925]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Wilhelm Wisser]], German dialectologist (d. [[1935]])
* [[August 28]] – [[August Sedláček]], Czech historian (d. [[1926]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Alfred Agache (painter)|Alfred Agache]], French painter (d. [[1915]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Carl Theodor Albrecht]], German astronomer (d. [[1915]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Georg von Hertling]], [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (d. [[1919]])