- Aug 3 Lawrence Brown, US trombonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra)
- Aug 5 Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, jazz vocalist/trumpeter
- Aug 8 Benny Carter, American musician and composer (Easy Money, King Carter), born in NYC, New York
- Aug 14 Stanley Adams, American lyricist and songwriter (What a Diff'rence a Day Makes), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1994)
- Aug 16 Alexander Uriah Boskovich, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Israeli composer
- Aug 17 Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer
- Aug 18 Enoch Light, American orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), born in Canton, Ohio (d. 1978)
- Aug 18 Howard Swanson, composer
- Aug 18 Otto Mortensen, composer
- Aug 19 Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer
- Aug 20 Anatole Fistoulari, conductor