Celebrations
August 1st
Horses' Birthday Switzerland National Day National Tree Day Landcare Week 1-7/8/22 August 2nd August 3rd August 4th Cook Islands National Day August 5th Jeans for Genes Day August 6th Bolivia National Day Hiroshima Day August 7th August 8th Al-Hijra (Muslim New Year) August 9th Singapore National Day International Art Appreciation Day August 10th Ecuador National Day August 11th August 12th World Elephant Day World Photography Day Red Nose Day August 13th International Left-Handers Day National Science Week 13-21/8/22 August 14th Pakistan Independence Day World Lizard Day August 15th India Independence Day Congo Republic National Day Korea National Day August 16th August 17th Indonesia Independence Day August 18th Vietnam Veterans Day August 19th International Orangutan Day World Humanitarian Day Sri Krishna Jayanti (Hindu) August 20th Hungary National Day World Mosquito Day International Lighthouse Weekend 20-21/08/2022 Children's Book Week 20-26/08/2022 August 21st August 22nd August 23rd International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition World Water Week 23/08-1/09/2022 August 24th Ukraine National Day August 25th Uruguay National Day August 26th Daffodil Day Wear it Purple Day August 27th August 28th August 29th August 30th Ganesh Chaturthi (Hindu) August 31st Malaysia National Day |
Famous People's Birthdays
August 2nd
August 5th
Christine Harris (Author)
August 6th
Alfred Tennyson (Poet) Andy Warhol (Artist) Alexander Fleming (Scientist) Barbara Cooney (Illustrator)
August 7th
Betsy Byars (Author) August 8th
Amedeo Avogadro (Scientist) Marcia Williams (Illustrator) Jan Pienkowski (Illustrator) Jostein Gaarder (Author)
August 11th
Enid Blyton (Author) Joanna Cole (Author) Steven Kroll (Author) Don Freeman (Author) Geoffrey Trease (Author) Suzanne Collins (Author)
August 12th
Erwin Schrodinger (Scientist) August 14th
Rene Goscinny (Author) Elizabeth Macarthur (Australian History) Alice Provensen (Illustrator)
August 18th
Nicola Bayley (Author & Illustrator)
August 19th
Ogden Nash (Poet)
August 20th
August 21st
Hugh McKay (Inventor) August 22nd
Claude Debussy (Composer)
August 23rd
Georges Cuvier (Scientist) Dick Bruna (Author & Illustrator) Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi (Tongan Artist)
August 24th
Ruth Park (Author) Karen Uhlenbeck (Mathematician) Alexander McCall Smith (Author) Matt Ottley (Author) William Wilberforce (Activist)
August 29th
Gillian Rubinstein (Author) Karen Hesse (Author) Joseph Jacobs (Author) Temple Grandin (Scientist) August 30th
Jacques-Louis David (Artist) Ernest Rutherford (Scientist) Virginia Lee Burton (Author & Illustrator) Sylvia Earle (Scientist) August 31st
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