- Aug 6 Mary Carr Moore, American composer, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1957)
- Aug 11 J. Rosamund Johnson, American composer ("Lift Every Voice And Sing"), born in Jacksonville, Florida (d. 1954)
- Aug 18 Leo Slezak, Moravian dramatic tenor and actor (Othello; Zirkus Saran; Husaren heraus), born in Mährisch-Schönberg, Austria-Hungary (now Šumperk, Czech Republic) (d. 1946)
- Aug 18 Otto Harbach [Hauerbach], American librettist, lyricist (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes), and mentor to Oscar Hammerstein II, born in New York City (d. 1963)
- Aug 20 William Henry Bell, English composer, born in St Albans, England (d. 1946)
- Aug 22 Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1935)
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