Events in Music
- Aug 3 "Little Night Music" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 601 performances
- Aug 3 "Words & Music" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 127 performances
Music History
Aug 3 Jeff Baxter, guitarist and founding member of Steely Dan quits the band and joins the Doobie Brothers
- Aug 5 Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways in England
Music History
Aug 23 John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC
Birthdays in Music
- Aug 1 Chris Shinn, American singer and songwriter (Live, 2012-16; Unified Theory, 1998-2001), born in Hartford, Connecticut
- Aug 2 Jeremy Castle, Oklahoma country singer and songwriter, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Aug 11 Hadiqa Kiyani, Pakistani pop star
- Aug 14 Ana Matronic [Lynch], American alt-pop singer (Scissor Sisters), born in Portland, Oregon
- Aug 14 Martin Bulloch, Scottish musician (Mogwai), born in Blantyre, United Kingdom
- Aug 16 Killah Priest [Walter Reed], American rapper, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Aug 17 Tony Hajjar, Lebanese-American drummer (At the Drive-In; Sparta), born in Beirut, Lebanon
- Aug 20 Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End), born in Adelaide, Australia
- Aug 20 Big Moe [Kenneth Doniell Moore], American rapper (Screwed Up Click), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2007)
- Aug 20 Maxim Vengerov, Russian-Israeli violinist, born in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- Aug 22 Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarist (Le Vibrazioni), born in Milan, Italy
- Aug 23 Shifty Shellshock [Seth Binzer], American musician (Crazy Town), born in Los Angeles, California
- Aug 24 Órla Fallon, Irish traditional singer, Celtic harpist, and songwriter (Celtic Woman, 2004-2009; Anúna, 1996), born in Knockananna, County Wicklow, Ireland
- Aug 26 Huang Bo, Chinese actor (Cow) and singer, born in Qingdao, China
- Aug 28 Takahito Eguchi, Japanese video game composer, born in Nagasaki, Japan
- Aug 29 Kumi Tanioka, Japanese video game composer (Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles), born in Hiroshima, Japan
- Aug 30 Aaron Barrett, American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (Reel Big Fish), born in San Bernadino, California
- Aug 30 Rich Cronin, American singer songwriter (Lyte Funkie Ones), born in Boston, Massachusetts
Weddings in Music
Faye Dunaway
Aug 7 American actress Faye Dunaway (33) weds American rock singer Peter Wolf (28) of J. Geils Band; divorce in 1979
Deaths in Music
- Aug 6 Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist ("The Happy Blues"), dies of bone cancer at 49
- Aug 9 Bill Chase, American jazz-rock trumpet player and bandleader (Chase), dies in a plane crash at 39
- Aug 11 Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan composer, dies at 86
- Aug 13 (Harold) "Tina" Brooks, American hard-bop jazz saxophonist, and composer ("True Blue"), dies of liver failure at 42
- Aug 20 Ilona Massey [Hajmássy], Hungarian-American film, stage, and radio actress and singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies of cancer at 64
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