Birthdays in Music Aug 1 Aldine Silliman Kieffer, American composer, born in Miami, Missouri (d. 1904) Aug 28 Ira D. Sankey, American evangelist, composer and singer (Gospel hymns), born in Edinburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1908) Deaths in Music Aug 24 Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer, dies at 89 1839 Music History by Year 1841