- Aug 4 Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor, born in Khandwa, Central Provinces, British (d. 1987)
- Aug 6 Mike Elliott, saxophonist, born in Jamaica, West Indies
- Aug 8 Josef Suk, violinist (Artist of Merit-1977), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Aug 10 John Alldis, composer/conductor
- Aug 11 Alun Hoddinott, Bargoed Wales, composer (Floriture)
- Aug 11 Cora de Man-Canne Meyer, mezzo-soprano (Figaro, Carmen)
- Aug 12 Buck Owens, [Alvis Edgar], Sherman Texas, country singer (Hee Haw)
- Aug 12 Joji Yuasa, Japanese composer, born in Kōriyama, Fukushima
- Aug 13 Augustyn Bloch, Polish composer, born in Grudziądz (d. 2006)
- Aug 16 Bill Evans, US jazz pianist
- Aug 18 Hugues Aufray, French singer
- Aug 24 Willie Winfield, American doo-woop singer (Harptones), born in Norfolk, Virginia
- Aug 28 Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor, born in Budapest, Hungary