- Aug 5 George Duke, American Grammy Award-winning jazz and funk keyboard player, and composer, dies from chronic lymphocytic leukemia at 67
- Aug 7 Kelly Garrett, American actress and singer (The Night That Made America Famous), dies of cancer at 69
- Aug 8 Regina Resnik, American operatic singer, dies at 90
- Aug 10 Eydie Gormé [Edithe Gormezano], American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pop singer ("Blame It On The Bossa Nova"; Steve and Eydie), dies at 84
- Aug 11 Lamberto Puggelli, Italian stage and opera director (Spoleto Festival), dies at 75
- Aug 13 (Thomas Paul) "Tompall" Glaser, American country singer ("Put Another Log on the Fire"), dies at 79
- Aug 13 Jon Brookes, English drummer (The Charlatans), dies of cancer at 44
- Aug 14 Allen Lanier, American rock keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist (Blue Oyster Cult), dies from complications from COPD at 67
- Aug 19 Cedar Walton, American hard bop jazz pianist (Jazztet; Art Blakey), and composer ("Mosaic"), dies at 79
- Aug 20 Marian McPartland, British jazz pianist, and radio host (Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz), dies at 95
- Aug 20 Richard Angas, British operatic bass singer (English National Opera, 1980-2000), dies at 71
- Aug 21 Sid Bernstein, American music producer/promoter, dies at 95
- Aug 22 Keiko Fuji, Japanese enka singer and actress, dies at 62
- Aug 23 David Garrick [Philip Darryl Core], British singer ("Dear Mrs. Applebee"), dies at 67
- Aug 26 Ruth S. White, American electronic music composer (Flowers Of Evil), dies at 87
- Aug 28 Rob du Bois, Dutch composer, dies at 79
- Aug 30 Lotfollah "Lotfi" Mansouri, Persian opera director (Canadian Opera Company, 1976-88; introduced opera surtitles, 1983; San Francisco Opera, 1988-2001), dies at 84
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