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
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