1 August
- National Mountain Climbing Day
– Yorkshire Day
- World Breastfeeding Week
– Friendship Day (First Sunday of August)
4 August
- U.S. Coast Guard Day
6 August
– Hiroshima Day
- International Beer Day
7 August
- National Handloom Day
8 August
– Quit India Movement Day
9 August
- Nagasaki Day
- International Day of the World s Indigenous Peoples
12 August
– International Youth Day
-World Elephant Day
13 August
- International Lefthanders Day
- World Organ Donation Day
14 August
- Youm-e-Azadi (Pakistan Independence Day)
15 August
- National Mourning Day (Bangladesh)
– Independence Day in India
- Day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
16 August
- Bennington Battle Day
17 August
- Indonesian Independence Day
19 August
- World Photography Day
- World Humanitarian Day
20 August
- World Mosquito Day
-Sadbhavna Diwas
-Indian Akshay Urja Day
22 August
- Raksha Bandhan
- Narali Purnima
23 August
- International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
- European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism
26 August
- Women s Equality Day
- International Dog Day
29 August
- National Sports Day
30 August
- Small Industry Day
- Janmashtami
31 August
- Hari Merdeka (Malaysia National Day)