- Aug 2 Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont, French composer, dies of tuberculosis at 36
- Aug 7 Boleslaw Dembinski, Polish composer, dies at 81
- Aug 15 Anatoly Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59
- Aug 28 Anatoly Lyadov, Russian composer (From the Apocalypse; Bewitched Lake), conductor, and pedagogue (St. Petersburg Conservatory, 1878-1914), dies at 59
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