- Aug 1 Oskar Fried, German-Russian composer, born in Berlin, German Empire (d. 1941)
- Aug 8 William Henry Squire, British cellist, music educator, and composer, born in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England (d. 1963)
- Aug 16 Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, Georgian composer (Abesalom and Eteri), born in Kutaisi (d. 1933)
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