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 29 "Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 performances
Film Release
Aug 29 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke is released
Julie Andrews
Walt Disney
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