| Classical Music Month Hispanic Heritage Month Fall Hat Month Courtesy Month Piano Month |
September 2003 | 14-20 Singles Week 17-23 Constitution Week 23-29 Pet Week 20-27 Banned Book Week | ||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon Edgar Rice Burroughs Edna Cameron W.T. Mars Rosa Guy Glaise Cendrars Scott Spenser |
2 V J Day Eugene Field Richard Floethe Elizabeth de Trevina John Bierhost Bernard Most J.R.R. Tolkien |
3 Skyscraper Day Tom Glazer Alison Lurie Aliki e.e. cumings |
4 Newspaper Carrier Day Syd Hoff Joan Aiken Mary Renault Richard Wright |
5 Teacher's Day Be Late for Something Day Glenn Blough Edith McCall Paul Fleishman Cathy Guisewhite Arthur Koestler |
6 Read a Book Day All Lands Cleanup Day Howard Pease Frank Modell Phillip Yates Robert Pirsig | |
| 7 Fight Procrastination Day Oops, that was yesterday Grandparent's Day Father's Day Australia New Zealand C.B. Colby Jacob Lawrence Edith Sitwell |
8
International Literacy Day Byron Barton Jack Prelutsky Michael Hague Jon Scieszka Grace Metalious Michael Frayne Ann Beattie |
9 Leo Tolstoy Phyllis Whitney Aileen Fisher Patricia Scarry Brassaļ Emile Zola |
10 Swap Ideas Day Robert McClung Betty Levin Michael Guinsburg |
11 Patriot Day O. Henry D.H. Lawrence |
12 National Pet Memorial Day J.L. Mencken Michael Ondaatje Robert Lowell |
13 National Peanut Day Positive Thinking Day Roald Dahl Sherwood Anderson Frances Newman |
| 14 Elizabeth Hurd John Steptoe Ivan Klima James Fenimore Cooper |
15 James Fenimore Cooper Tomie de Paola Robert McCloskey Agatha Christie Thomas Wolfe |
16 Friendship Day Preserve the Ozone Day Mayflower Day Mexican Independence Day Step-family Day John Knowles H.A. Ray Henry Louise Gates, Jr |
17 Citizenship Day Mary Stewart Ken Kesey William Carlos Williams Frank O'Conner |
18 Thank You Day Samuel Johnson |
19 Talk Like a Pirate Day It's a bit of a contradiction, but today is also International Day of Peace William Golding Susan Compo |
20 Oktoberfest Germany Ends October 5 Upton Sinclair Maxwell Perkins Stevie Smith |
| 21 World Gratitude Day Biosphere Day Stephen King H.G. Wells Leonard Cohen Jacqueline Susann |
22 Dear Diary Day Native American Day Business Women's Day |
23 First Day of Autumn Good Neighbor Day Jan Ormerod Sigmund Freud |
24 F. Scott Fitzgerald Wilson Rawls |
25 National Comic Book Day Shel Silverstein William Faulkner |
26 T.S. Eliot Jack LaLanne Jane Smiley Minette Walters Carson McCullers |
27 Ancestor Appreciation Day Thomas Nast Paul Goble Jim Thompson Joyce Johnson |
| 28 Ask a Stupid Question Day Gold Star Mother's Day Kate Douglas Wiggins John Sayles Herman Melville |
29 Confucius Day Stan Berenstain Miguel deCervantes | 30 Truman Capote |
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