- 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 record producer (b. 1937)
- Aug 25 Nils Viggo Bentzon, Danish pianist and composer (The Tempered Piano), dies at 80
- Aug 26 [Douglas] Allen Woody, American bassist (Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule), dies at 44