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August 2, 2025 · 6:01 PM

August 2025 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of August for writers and readers

Family Fun Month

Happiness Happens Month

Romance Awareness Month

August 1 – Herman Melville’s Birthday; World Wide Web Day
August 1-7 – International Clown Week
August 2 – International Beer Day
August 3 – International Friendship Day; Psychic Day (U.S.)
August 3-9 – International Dog Assistance Week
August 4 – Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Birthday
August 4-10 – National Simplify Your Life Week (U.S.)
August 5 – Blogger Day
August 6 – Farmworker Appreciation Day
August 7 – Purple Heart Day (U.S.)
August 9 – Book Lovers Day
August 10 – Vlogging Day; World Lion Day
August 12 – International Youth Day; Mountain Day (Japan); World Elephant Day
August 13 – International Lefthanders Day; Women’s and Family Day; World Calligraphy Day
August 14 – Danielle Steele’s Birthday; Love Your Bookshop Day; World Lizard Day
August 15 – Chant at the Moon Day
August 16 – International Homeless Animals Day; World Honey Bee Day
August 18 – National Bad Poetry Day; World Breast Cancer Research Day
August 19 – World Humanitarian Day; World Photo Day
August 22 – International Day Commemorating Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief
August 23 – European Day for Remembrance of Victims of Stalinism and Nazism; International Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
August 24 – Paulo Coelho’s Birthday; International Strange Music Day
August 24-28 – World Water Week
August 26 – International Dog Day
August 28 – Leo Tolstoy’s Birthday
August 30 – Mary Shelley’s Birthday; International Day for Victims of Enforced Disappearances
August 30-31 – International Bat Night
August 31 – International Day for People of African Descent; International Overdose Awareness Day; We Love Memoirs Day; World Distance Learning Day

Famous August Birthdays

Other August Events

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July 4, 2025 · 12:51 AM

Happy Fourth of July 2025!

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like me, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”

Thomas Paine

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June 28, 2025 · 11:12 PM

July 2025 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of July for writers and readers

Good Care Month

National Anti-Boredom Month

National Blueberry Month

National Culinary Arts Month

National Lost Pet Prevention Month

National Picnic Month

Read an Almanac Month

Social Wellness Month

South Asian Heritage Month

Wild About Wildlife Month

July 1 – American Zoo Day (U.S.); Canada Day; International Joke Day
July 1-7 – Clean Beaches Week
July 2 – Freedom from Fear of Speaking Day; World UFO Day
July 3 – Air Conditioning Appreciation Day; International Plastic Bag Free Day
July 4 – U.S. Independence Day
July 6 – International Kissing Day
July 7 – Global Forgiveness Day; Tell the Truth Day; World Chocolate Day
July 8 – International Paramedics Day
July 11 – E.B. White’s Birthday; International Essential Oils Day; World Population Day
July 14 – Bastille Day (France)
July 17 – World Day for International Justice; World Emoji Day
July 18 – Nelson Mandela International Day; World Listening Day
July 20 – International Chess Day; Space Exploration Day (U.S.)
July 21 – Ernest Hemingway’s Birthday
July 22 – World Brain Day
July 24 – International Self-Care Day
July 25 – National Wine & Cheese Day (U.S.)
July 29 – International Tiger Day
July 30 – Paperback Book Day; World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
July 31 – J.K. Rowling’s Birthday

Famous July Birthdays

Other July Events

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June 19, 2025 · 12:03 AM

Juneteenth 2025

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

Frederick Douglass

Juneteenth

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June 15, 2025 · 12:05 AM

Happy Father’s Day 2025!

“Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.”

Frank Pittman

Image: John Darkow

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May 28, 2025 · 2:39 PM

June 2025 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of June for writers and readers

Audiobook Appreciation Month

Black Lives Matter Month

Celibacy Awareness Month

Children’s Awareness Month

National Adopt a Cat Month

National Foster a Pet Month

National Men’s Health Month

National Oceans Month

Rainbow Book Month

June 1 – Cancer Survivors Day
June 2 – American Indian Citizenship Day; National Leave the Office Early Day
June 2-8 – National Week of the Ocean
June 3 – Love Conquers All Day
June 4 – Audacity to Hope Day; Hug Your Cat Day; Global Running Day; National Cheese Day
June 5 – World Environment Day
June 7 – World Caring Day
June 8 – Best Friends Day; International Day of Action for Elephants in Zoos; National Children’s Day; Race Unity Day
June 9 – National No Apologies Period Day; National Sex Day
June 11 – Thank You Day; Wear Blue Day
June 12 – Anne Frank’s Birthday; National Red Rose Day; World Day Against Child Labor
June 14 – Monkey Around Day; World Blood Donor Day
June 15 – Father’s Day (U.S.); Nature Photography Day; World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
June 15-21 – National Forgiveness Week (U.S.)
June 16 – International Waterfall Day; World Sea Turtle Day
June 16-22 – Animal Rights Awareness Week (U.S.); Learning Disability Week; Universal Father’s Week
June 17 – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
June 18 – National Splurge Day
June 19 – Juneteenth (U.S.); National Watch Day; World Sauntering Day
June 21 – Andean New Year; Indigenous People’s Day (Canada); International Yoga Day; Summer Solstice (Northern Hemisphere); Winter Solstice (Southern Hemisphere); World Giraffe Day; World Humanist Day; World Music Day
June 22 – Octavia Butler’s Birthday; World Rainforest Day
June 23 – Let It Go Day; National Pink Day; National Typewriter Day
June 24 – International Fairy Day
June 25 – Eric Carle’s Birthday
June 26 – International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
June 27 – National Food Truck Day; National Safer Workplace Day (Canada; U.S.)
June 28 – Paul Bunyan Day (U.S.)
June 29 – International Day of the Tropics; International Fisherman’s Day
June 30 – International Asteroid Day

Famous June Birthdays

Other June Events

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May 26, 2025 · 12:08 AM

Memorial Day 2025

“Liberty is the breath of life to nations.”

George Bernard Shaw

Memorial Day

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May 11, 2025 · 12:02 AM

Happy Mother’s Day 2025!

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers.”

Rudyard Kipling

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April 28, 2025 · 5:49 PM

May 2025 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of May for writers and readers

American Cheese Month

Arthritis Awareness Month

Asian American and Pacific Islander Month (U.S.)

Be Kind to Animals Month

Better Sleep Month

Get Caught Reading Month

Indian Heritage Month

Jewish American Heritage Month

Labor History Month

Mental Health Awareness Month

Military Appreciation Month

National Allergy and Asthma Awareness Month

National Anxiety Month

National Meditation Month

National Pet Month

Short Story Month

May 1 – Couple Appreciation Day; Global Love Day; May Day; Mother Goose Day; National Loyalty Day; Phone In Sick Day
May 2 – International Harry Potter Day
May 3 – National Space Day; World Press Freedom Day
May 4 – Free Comic Book Day (N. America); Greenery Day (Japan); National Day of Reason (U.S.)
May 4-10 – Red Cross Week
May 5 – Nellie Bly’s Birthday; Cinco de Mayo (México); National Cartoonists Day; National Silence the Shame About Mental Illness) Day; World Laughter Day
May 5-11 – Hurricane Preparedness Week (U.S.); National Pet Week (U.S.)
May 6 – Sigmund Freud’s Birthday
May 6-12 – Children’s Book Week; National Nurses Week (U.S.)
May 7 – Tchaikovsky’s Birthday; Poem on Your Pillow Day
May 8 – Peter Benchley’s Birthday
May 9 – J.M. Barrie’s Birthday; Europe Day; National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day (U.S.); Peter Pan Day
May 11 – Irving Berlin’s Birthday; Martha Graham’s Birthday; Salvador Dali’s Birthday; Mother’s Day (U.S.)
May 12 – Limerick Day
May 13-19 – Dementia Awareness Week (U.K.)
May 16 – Love a Tree Day
May 19 – Nora Ephron’s Birthday
May 20 – Flower Day
May 22 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Birthday; Sherlock Holmes Day
May 24 – Take a Road Trip Day
May 25 – Robert Ludlum’s Birthday
May 26 – Memorial Day (U.S.)
May 27 – Dashiell Hammett’s Birthday; Ian Fleming’s Birthday
May 30 – National Creativity Day
May 31 – Walt Whitman’s Birthday