* August 19-George Smith, English Assyriologist ( born 1840 )

* August 19 – Georges Enescu, Romanian composer ( d. 1955 )

George Enescu (; known in France as Georges Enesco ; 19 August 1881, Liveni – 4 May 1955, Paris ) was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.

By the end of August, relations improved again as the countries had redrawn the Hungarian and Romanian borders, settled some Bulgarian claims and Stalin was again convinced that Germany would face a long war in the west with Britain's improvement in its air battle with Germany and the execution of an agreement between the United States and Britain regarding destroyers and bases.

* August 3 – Romanian army liberates Timișoara from the Hungarian occupation.

* August 4 – Romanian army occupies Budapest.

* August 10 – Panait Istrati, Romanian writer ( d. 1935 )

* August 17 – Ioan Slavici, Romanian writer ( b. 1848 )

In August 1916, upon the start of the Romanian campaign, Romanian troops crossed the Carpathian Mountains, marching into the Austro-Hungarian-ruled region of Transylvania, but their effort was halted when the Central Powers opened new fronts.

Bulgarian and Imperial German armies decisively defeated their ill-equipped and poorly defended Romanian adversaries in the Battle of Turtucaia ( August 24 ), and advanced into Dobruja.

Additionally, Romanian broadcasts ceased on 1 August 2008.

On August 31, 1989, following a 600, 000-strong demonstration in Chişinău four days earlier, Romanian ( Moldavian ) became the official language of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.

This action remained largely symbolic ( at least from the Bulgarian perspective ), until August 1943, when Bulgarian air defense and air force attacked Allied bombers, returning ( heavily damaged ) from a mission over the Romanian oil refineries.

Arrow was born on August 23, 1921, in New York City to parents of Romanian Jewish origins.

In World War I, the town was occupied by Romanian troops between 16 August and 4 October in 1916 during Battle of Transylvania.

c. In August 1940, as the second Vienna Award transferred the northern half of Transylvania to Hungary, an exile of Romanian inhabitants began.

As the Red Army battled the Wehrmacht and Romanian forces in August 1944, Soviet agent Emil Bodnăraş organized an underground coalition to stage a coup d ' état that would put communists — who were then two tiny groups — into power.

On August 7, 1941, following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, the city was taken over by Romanian troops.

Major Gen. Uzal Girard Ent, who had led the August, 1943, raid on the Romanian oil refineries in Ploesti, chose Col. Paul Tibbets to lead the 509th Composite Group, asking him to organize and lead a combat force to deliver a new type of explosive device that is so powerful, its full potential was unknown.

* August 10-Panait Istrati, Romanian novelist and short story writer ( died 1935 )

According to NKVD orders, tens of thousands of Romanian families were deported to Siberia during this period, with 12, 191 people deported on 2 August 1940 ( less than a month after the occupation ), and another 2, 057 persons deported to Siberia in December 1940, together with their families.

* August 21-Dimitrie Cantemir, first author in the Romanian language ( born 1673 )

In the Declaration of Independence of Moldova ( 27 August 1991 ), the official language was named " Romanian ", but the 1994 constitution declared Moldovan the state language.

In a radio broadcast to the Romanian nation and army on the night of 23 August King Michael issued a cease-fire, proclaimed Romania's loyalty to the Allies, announced the acceptance of an armistice ( to be signed on September 12 ) offered by Great Britain, the United States, and the USSR, and declared war on Germany.

As the country declared war on Germany on the night of 23 August 1944, border clashes between Hungarian and Romanian troops erupted almost immediately.

August Wilhelm Ambros ( November 17, 1816 – June 28, 1876 ) was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent.

Antonio Salieri ( 18 August 17507 May 1825 ) was a classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy.

The composer Manuel Robles and the poet Bernardo de Vera y Pintado fulfilled this mandate and their " National Song " debuted on 20 August 1820 in the Domingo Arteaga theater, although other historians claim that it was played and sung during the festivities of September 1819.

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich ( 25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975 ) was a Soviet Russian composer and pianist and a prominent figure of 20th century music.

* 1702 – Carl August Thielo, Danish composer ( d. 1763 )

* 1714 – Gottfried August Homilius, German composer ( d. 1785 )

Ira Gershwin ( December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983 ) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007 ) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important ( Barrett 1988, 45 ; Harvey 1975b, 705 ; Hopkins 1972, 33 ; Klein 1968, 117 ) but also controversial ( Power 1990, 30 ) composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

Karl Amadeus Hartmann ( 2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963 ) was a German composer.

* 1752 – Ludwig August Lebrun, German oboist and composer ( d. 1790 )

* 1816 – August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer ( d. 1876 )

Tori Amos ( born Myra Ellen Amos ; August 22, 1963 ) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer.

Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS ( Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 ) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer.

* August 12 – Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer ( d. 1690 )

* August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor ( d. 1990 )

* August 17 – Zvi Keren, American-born Israeli pianist, musicologist and composer ( d. 2008 )

* August 5 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer ( b. 1908 )

* August 21 – Ichiro Fujiyama, Japanese composer and singer ( b. 1911 )

* August 21 – Constant Lambert, British composer ( b. 1905 )

* August 3 – Manuel Esperón, Mexican musician and composer ( d. 2011 )

* August 13 – Jules Massenet, French composer ( b. 1842 )

* August 29 – Jan Ekier, Polish pianist and composer

* August 2 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer ( b. 1863 )

* August 13 – David Tudor, American pianist and composer ( b. 1926 )

* August 3 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer ( b. 1934 )