Editing 1889 (section)

=== August ===
* [[August 5]] – [[Conrad Aiken]], American writer (d. [[1973]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Conrad Aiken|author2=Malcolm Lowry|title=The Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry, 1929-1954|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l9QfAQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=978-1-55022-168-8|page=xi}}</ref>
* [[August 6]] – [[George Kenney]], World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d. [[1977]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Norman Scott (Medal of Honor)|Norman Scott]], American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (killed in action [[1942]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Ronald Fairbairn]], Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. [[1964]])
* [[August 15]] – [[Marthe Richard]], French prostitute, spy and politician (d. [[1982]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Sir Richard O'Connor]], British general (d. [[1981]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Ioan Dumitrache]], Romanian general (d. [[1977]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Alfredo Obviar]], Filipino [[Roman Catholic]] bishop and Servant of God (d. [[1978]])