| Admit You're Happy Month Family Fun Month National Golf Month Romance Awareness Month |
August 2003 | 1-7 National Clown Week 5-11 Simplify Your Life Week 12-18 National Smile Week 17-23 Friendship Week | ||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 Gail Gibbons Herman Melville Francis Scott Key Madison Smartt Bell Jim Carroll Mark Alan Stamaty Wild Bill Hickok |
2 Friendship Day Caleb Carr Holling C. Holling James Howe James Baldwin Isabel Allende Willie Morris William S. Burroughs Raymond Carver |
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| 3 Watermelon Day Mustard Day Leon Uris Mary Calhoun Steven Millhauser P.D. James Rupert Brooke Flannery O'Conner Joseph Conrad Colette Charles Baudelaire |
4 British Columbia Day New Brunswick Day Coast Guard Day Picnic Day International Forgiveness Day Percy Bysshe Shelley Berniece Freschet Hans Christian Andersen |
5 National Night Out Sisters Day Ruth Sawyer Maude Petersham Robert Bright Guy de Maupassant |
6 Halfway Point of Summer Wiggle Your Toes Day Alfred, Lord Tennyson Barbara Cooney Ben Jonson |
7 National Lighthouse Day Betsy Byars Garrison Keillor Russell Baker |
8
Senior Citizens Day Marjorie Rawlings |
9 Garage Sale Day P.L. Travers Tove Jansson Patricia McKissack Herman Hesse |
| 10 Spoil Your Dog Day Lazy Day Margot Tomes |
11 Sons and Daughters Day Family Day George Sullivan Steven Kral Joanna Cole Alex Haley Edith Wharton |
12 Ruth Stiles Gannet William Blake Thomas Mann |
13 Left-Hander Day Walter Crane |
14 National Creamsicle Day Danielle Steele Steve Martin H.G. Wells William Randolph Hearst |
15 Woodstock-1969 Brinton Turkle Linda Ellerbee Phyllis Schlafly Sir Walter Scott Will Rogers |
16 Homeless Animal Day Tell a Joke Day William Maxwell Charles Bukowski Margaret Mitchell |
| 17 Thrift Shop Day Davy Crockett Evan Connell John Hawkes Alexander Theroux |
18 Bad Poetry Day Paula Danziger Honore de Balzac |
19 Aviation Day Ogden Nash Groucho Marx |
20 National Radio Day Jacqueline Susann |
21 Poets Day Arthur Yorinks |
22 Ray Bradbury Dorothy Parker |
23 Lighthouse Day |
| 24 Chinese Valentine Day Max Beerbohm Jean Rhys Jorge Luis Borges A.S. Byatt Oscar Hijuelos |
25 Kiss and Make Up Day Barbara Fenton Bret Harte Brian Moore Martin Amis Truman Capote |
26 Women's Equality Day Patricia Beatty Guillaume Appollinaire Christopher Isherwood Julio Cortazar |
27 Leo Tolstoy Graham Oakley Ann Rinaldi C.S. Forester Theodore Dreiser Jeanette Winterson |
28 Dream Day Johann von Goethe Liam O'Flaherty Robertson Davies Janet Frame Rita Dove |
29 | 30 Toasted Marshmallow Day Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley R. Crumb |
| 31 John Bunyan |
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