5th » Friedrich August Kummer, German cellist and composer (d. 1879)
9th » Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and surveyor (d. 1855)
Famous Deaths for August 1797
3rd » Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, List of colonial governors of Virginia known as Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1717)
22nd » Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (b. 1724)