Events in Music
- Aug 1 Beatles' single "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
- Aug 5 Beatles record "Leave My Kitten Alone"
- Aug 8 "110 in the Shade" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 330 performances
- Aug 8 Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam
- Aug 8 Rolling Stones 1st Dutch concert
- Aug 9 1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands
- Aug 11 Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in NYC
- Aug 18 Beatles arrive in San Francisco, 2nd US visit
- Aug 22 Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go" reaches #1
Film Premier
Aug 27 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke premieres in Los Angeles
Julie Andrews
Walt Disney
- Aug 29 "Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 performances
Birthdays in Music
Adam Yauch
Aug 5 MCA [Adam Yauch], rock vocalist (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2012)
Adam Yauch
- Aug 10 Aaron Hall, American songwriter
- Aug 11 Hamish, rocker (The Pasedenas-Riding on the Train)
- Aug 13 Ian Haughland, heavy metal rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
- Aug 17 Colin James, Canadian musician
- Aug 18 Edith Frost, American singer/songwriter
- Aug 24 Pebbles, American rock vocalist (Girlfriend), born in Oakland, California
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
Aug 4 Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane (35) weds Alice Macleod
John Coltrane