- Aug 1 Nick Christian Sayer, British rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
- Aug 1 Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Adam Yauch
Aug 5 MCA [Adam Yauch], rock vocalist (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2012)
Adam Yauch
- Aug 10 Aaron Hall, American songwriter
- Aug 11 Hamish, rocker (The Pasedenas-Riding on the Train)
- Aug 13 Ian Haugland, heavy metal rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown), born in Storslett, Nordreisa, Norway
- Aug 17 Colin James, Canadian singer-songwriter, born in Regina, Saskatchewan
- Aug 18 Edith Frost, American singer and songwriter, born in San Antonio, Texas
- Aug 20 Miljenko "Dino" Dvornik, Croatian singer known as "the Croatian king of funk", born in Split, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia (d. 2008)
- Aug 24 Pebbles, American rock vocalist (Girlfriend), born in Oakland, California
About August 1964
How Old? 56 years old
Generation: Baby Boomer
Leap Year: Yes