Birthdays in Music
- Aug 4 Irving Fields [Yitzhak Schwartz], American lounge pianist and composer (Ilona Massey Show; Bagels & Bongos), born in NYC, New York (d. 2016)
- Aug 9 Haim Alexander, Israeli composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2012)
- Aug 11 Kunio Toda, Japanese composer, born in Tokyo (d. 2003)
- Aug 12 Michael Kidd, American choreographer and dancer, born in NYC, New York (d. 2007)
- Aug 16 Al Hibbler, American singer (Unchained Melody), born in Tyro, Mississippi (d. 2001)
- Aug 21 Raquel Rastenni, Danish pop singer ("Hele ugen alene" - Seven Lonely Days), born in Copenhagen (d. 1998)
- Aug 24 Wynonie Harris, American rhythm and blues singer, born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1969)
- Aug 26 Humphrey Searle, British composer and musicologist (Twentieth Century Counterpoint; The Music of Franz Liszt), born in Oxford, England (d. 1982)
- Aug 26 William Bardwell, British composer (d. 1994)
- Aug 30 Robert Strassburg, American composer, conductor and educator (Leaves of Grass: A Choral Symphony), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2003)
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