Birthdays in Music
- Aug 1 Walter Scharf, American film composer, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2003)
- Aug 4 William Schuman, American composer (Pulitzer Prize, 1943), and administrator (Juilliard, 1945-61; Lincoln Center, 1961-68), born in New York City (d. 1992)
- Aug 6 Friedrich Schroder, composer
- Aug 12 Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (Romeo & Juliet)
- Aug 14 Pierre Schaeffer, French electronics engineer and composer, born in Nancy, France (d. 1995)
- Aug 15 Hugo Winterhalter, American composer, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (d. 1973)
- Aug 17 Erkki Aaltonen, Finnish composer, born in Hämeenlinna, Finland (d. 1990)
- Aug 18 Herman Berlinski, Polish-American organist, composer and choral conductor (The Tetragrammaton), born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 2001) [1]
- Aug 24 Bernhard Heiden [Levi], German-American composer, born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (d. 2000)
- Aug 29 Robert Pineda-Duque, Colombian composer, born in El Santuario, Colombia (d. 1977)