Events in Music
Event of Interest
Aug 6 Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma

Stevie Wonder
Album Release
Aug 28 "Let's Get It On" 13th studio album by Marvin Gaye is released

Marvin Gaye
- Aug 28 “Let’s Get It On” single released by Marvin Gaye (Billboard Song of the Year 1973)
Birthdays in Music
- Aug 8 Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)
- Aug 14 Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese game developer and composer
- Aug 22 Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys), born in Orlando, Florida
- Aug 28 DJ Assault, American musician
- Aug 29 Vincent Cavanagh, English rock musician (Anathema), born in Liverpool, England
Deaths in Music
- Aug 1 Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer, dies at 91
- Aug 4 Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68
- Aug 6 Memphis Minnie, American blues musician, dies at 76
- Aug 17 Paul Williams, American musician (The Temptations), commits suicide at 32
- Aug 17 Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
- Aug 24 Slava Vorlova, composer, dies at 79