Events in Music
Video Music Awards
Aug 28 20th MTV Video Music Awards: Missy Elliott, Beyoncé and Justin Timberlake win
Weddings in Music
- Aug 9 Former "New Kids on the Block" singer Joey McIntyre (30) weds real estate agent Barrett Williams (25) in New York City's Plaza Hotel
Deaths in Music
- Aug 2 Don Estelle [Ronald Edwards], British actor and singer (It Ain't Half Hot Mum), dies at 70
- Aug 3 Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)
- Aug 8 Maki Ishii, Japanese composer, dies at 66
- Aug 9 Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (White Nights, Taps), dies of liver cancer at 57
- Aug 9 Chester Ludgin, American baritone (b. 1925)
- Aug 10 Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer
- Aug 13 Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
- Aug 15 Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (b. 1957)
- Aug 18 Tony Jackson, English bass player (The Searchers), dies at 63
- Aug 21 Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
- Aug 22 Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
- Aug 26 Wilma Burgess, American country-pop singer, dies of a heart attack at 64
- Aug 26 Wayne Andre, American jazz and session trombonist, dies at 72
- Aug 31 Jaap Geraedts, Dutch composer, dies at 79