Birthdays in Music
- Aug 1 Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
- Aug 4 William Schuman, American composer (Amer Festival Overture, Juilliard), born in NYC, New York (d. 1992)
- Aug 6 Friedrich Schroder, composer
- Aug 12 Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (Romeo & Juliet)
- Aug 14 Pierre Schaeffer, French engineer/composer
- Aug 15 Hugo Winterhalter, composer
- Aug 17 Eric Aaltonen, composer
- Aug 18 Herman Berlinski, composer
- Aug 24 Bernhard Heiden, German-American composer, born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 2000)
- Aug 25 Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer (Dames, 42nd Street), born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (d. 1993)
- Aug 29 Robert Pineda-Duque, composer, born in El Santuario, Colombia (d. 1977)