Events in Music
- Aug 16 "Hanging by a Moment" single released by Lifehouse (Billboard Song of the Year 2001)
Birthdays in Music
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
Aug 10 Lead vocalist Dave Matthews (33) weds Jennifer Ashley Harper
Dave Matthews
Deaths in Music
- Aug 11 Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916)
- Aug 12 Patrick Peter Sacco, American composer, dies at 71
- Aug 13 Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist known as "Queen of Pop" in South Asia, dies of lung cancer at 35
- Aug 16 Alan Caddy, English musician (The Tornados), dies at 60
- Aug 25 Jack Nitzsche, American composer and songwriter (An Officer & a Gentleman), dies at 63
- Aug 26 [Douglas] Allen Woody, American bassist (The Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule), dies at 44