- Aug 2 Hamish MacCunn, Scottish composer (The Land of the Mountain and the Flood), and teacher, dies at 48
- Aug 5 George Butterworth, English composer, dies at 31
- Aug 5 Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, Russian composer, dies at 46
- Aug 13 Fritz Steinbach, German conductor and composer, dies at 61
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