Editing 1971 (section)

===August===
[[File:Paul Lukas - 1950.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Paul Lukas]]]]
[[File:Margaret Bourke-White 1955.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Margaret Bourke-White]]]]
* [[August 5]] – [[Royal Rife]], American inventor (b. [[1888]])
* [[August 11]] – [[John Burton Cleland|Sir John Cleland]], Australian naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist (b. [[1878]])
* [[August 13]]
** [[W. O. Bentley]], English engineer and entrepreneur (b. [[1888]])<ref>[https://www.rolls-royceandbentley.co.uk/w-o-bentley-the-founder-of-bentley.html W. O. Bentley – The Founder of Bentley]</ref>
** [[King Curtis]], American saxophonist (b. [[1934]])
* [[August 15]] – [[Paul Lukas]], Hungarian-born American actor (b. [[1894]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Wilhelm List]], German field marshal (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 21]] – [[George Jackson (activist)|George Jackson]], American author (b. [[1941]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Carl Blegen]], American archaeologist (b. [[1887]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Ted Lewis (musician)|Ted Lewis]], American musician and entertainer (b. [[1890]])
* [[August 27]] 
** [[Margaret Bourke-White]], American photographer (b. [[1904]])
** [[Bennett Cerf]], American publisher (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bennett-Cerf Bennett Cerf American publisher and editor]</ref>
* [[August 28]] – [[Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey]], British judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II (b. [[1880]])