- Aug 10 Douglas Moore, American organist, pianist, songwriter ("Goodnight Harvard"), and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (Giants in the Earth; The Ballad of Baby Doe), born in Cutchogue, Long Island, New York (d. 1969)
- Aug 14 Alfred Alessandrescu, Romanian composer, born in Bucharest (d. 1959)
- Aug 15 Alexander Gauk, Russian-Soviet composer, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1963)
Mae West (1893-1980)
Aug 17 American stage and screen actress, writer (She Done Him Wrong; I'm No Angel), and singer (Way Out West), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Aug 18 Ernest MacMillan, Canadian organist, conductor and composer, born in Etobicoke, Ontario (d. 1973)
- Aug 21 (Marie-Juliette) "Lili" Boulanger, French composer (first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize), born in Paris (d. 1918)
- Aug 23 Roy Agnew, Australian composer (Sonata Ballade), born in Sydney (d. 1944)
- Aug 31 Lily Laskine, French harpist, born in Paris (d. 1988)
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