Birthdays in Music
- Aug 4 Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor, born in Khandwa, Central Provinces, British (d. 1987)
- Aug 6 Mike Elliott, saxophonist, born in Jamaica, West Indies
- Aug 8 Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (Artist of Merit-1977), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2011)
- Aug 10 John Alldis, composer/conductor
- Aug 11 Alun Hoddinott, Bargoed Wales, composer (Floriture)
- Aug 11 Cora de Man-Canne Meyer, Dutch mezzo-soprano (Figaro, Carmen), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Aug 12 Buck Owens, [Alvis Edgar], Sherman Texas, country singer (Hee Haw)
- Aug 12 Joji Yuasa, Japanese composer, born in Kōriyama, Fukushima
- Aug 13 Augustyn Bloch, Polish composer, born in Grudziądz (d. 2006)
- Aug 14 Lorez Alexandria [Taylor] American jazz and gospel singer (Alexandria the Great), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2001)
- Aug 16 Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (Peace Piece; Waltz For Debbie), born in Plainfield, New Jersey (d. 1980)
- Aug 18 Hugues Aufray, French singer
- Aug 24 Willie Winfield, American doo-woop singer (Harptones - "Life Is But A Dream"), born in Norfolk, Virginia
- Aug 28 István Kertész, Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1973)