Tag Archives: August

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 – National Coloring Book Day (U.S.)       
• August 4 – Percy Blythe Shelley’s Birthday; International Beer Day
• August 5 – Blogger Day
• August 6 – Farmworker Appreciation Day; Psychic Day (U.S.)
• August 6-12 – International Dog Assistance Week
• August 7 – Professional Speakers Day (U.S.); Purple Heart Day (U.S.)
• August 7-13 – National Simplify Your Life Week (U.S.)
• August 9 – Book Lover’s Day (also November 4)
• August 10 – Vlogging Day; World Lion Day
• August 11 – Mountain Day
• August 12 – International Youth Day; World Elephant Day
• August 13 – International Lefthanders Day; Women’s and Family Day
• August 14 – Danielle Steele’s Birthday; Love Your Bookshop Day; World Lizard Day
• August 15 – Chant at the Moon Day
• August 16 – World Calligraphy Day
• August 18 – National Bad Poetry Day; World Breast Cancer Research Day
• August 19 – International Homeless Animals Day; World Honey Bee Day; World Humanitarian Day; World Photo Day
• August 21 – Poet’s 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 23-September 1 – World Water Week
• August 24 – Paulo Coelho’s Birthday; International Strange Music Day
• August 26 – International Bat Night
• August 28 – Leo Tolstoy’s Birthday
• August 30 – Mary Shelley’s Birthday; International Day for Victims of Enforced Disappearances
• 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