- Aug 11 Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer, dies at 83
- Aug 12 Patrick Peter Sacco, American composer, dies at 71
- Aug 13 Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist known as "Queen of Pop" in South Asia, dies of lung cancer at 35
- Aug 16 Alan Caddy, English musician (The Tornados), dies at 60
- Aug 25 Jack Nitzsche, American composer, arranger, music producer, keyboardist (Rolling Stones; Neil Young), and songwriter ("Up Where We Belong"), dies at 63
- Aug 26 [Douglas] Allen Woody, American bassist (The Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule), dies at 44
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