- Aug 2 Rene Amengual, Chilean pianist, composer and educator, dies at 42
- Aug 8 Gino Tagliapietra, Italian pianist and composer (Antologia di musica antica e moderna per pianoforte), dies at 67
- Aug 13 Hermann W. S. Waltershausen, German musicologist and composer, dies at 71
- Aug 17 Billy Murray, American singer (Denver Nightengale), dies at 77
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