Share Filter Results Filter Results Event Duration Day Week Month Event Type Curricular Holiday Birthday Grade Level PK-2 1-5 4-8 7-12 Curricular Area Art English Language Arts Health History Math Music Physical Education STEAM Science Social Studies Spanish Genre Adventure Biography Concept Book Fairy Tales / Folklore Graphic Novel Historical Fiction Holiday Humor Mystery Nonfiction Picture Book Poetry Realistic Fiction Romance Science Fiction / Fantasy Sports Cultural Experience African (Global) African African American American Indian Asian (Global) Asian Asian American South Asian Disability Gender Women / Girls Transgender / Non-Conforming Men / Boys Immigrant / Refugee Jewish Latino/a/e/x (Global) Latino (US / Canada) Latino (Latin America) LGBTQ+ Middle Eastern Multiracial / Mixed Race Muslim Pacific Islander / Oceania Literary Calendar October 2023 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 International Day of Older Persons Julie Andrews Edwards's Birthday 2 David Diaz's Birthday International Day of Non-Violence Banned Books Week More... 3 National Bullying Prevention Month 4 Donald J. Sobol's Birthday Karen Cushman's Birthday Lonnie Johnson's Birthday 5 David Shannon's Birthday World Teachers' Day 6 Fannie Lou Hamer's Birthday Jeanette Winter's Birthday National Hispanic Heritage Month More... 7 Domestic Violence Awareness Month 8 Faith Ringgold's Birthday R.L. Stine's Birthday LGBT History Month More... 9 Indigenous Peoples' Day Leif Erikson Day Thanksgiving (Canada) More... 10 Ada Lovelace Day James Marshall's Birthday World Mental Health Day 11 International Day of the Girl Child National Coming Out Day Russell Freedman's Birthday 12 Italian American Heritage Month TeenTober 13 International Day for Disaster Reduction Fire Prevention Week 14 Home Fire Drill Day e.e. cummings's Birthday 15 International Day of Rural Women 16 Peter McCarty's Birthday World Food Day 17 Christopher Myers's Birthday International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Invisible Disabilities Week More... 18 Eugene Yelchin's Birthday Learning Disabilities Awareness Month 19 Ed Emberley's Birthday Philip Pullman's Birthday 20 Nikki Grimes's Birthday 21 Celia Cruz's Birthday International Observe the Moon Night Ursula K. LeGuin's Birthday 22 National Nut Day 23 Laurie Halse Anderson's Birthday Pele's Birthday 24 Monica Brown's Birthday Dyslexia Awareness Month 25 Body Acceptance Week Filipino American History Month 26 Eric Rohmann's Birthday Hillary Clinton's Birthday Read for the Record More... 27 Joseph Medicine Crow's Birthday 28 1886 Dedication of the Statue of Liberty Anniversary 29 National Cat Day 30 Anniversary of the Debut of APPALACHIAN SPRING Saxton Freymann's Birthday 31 Halloween Katherine Paterson's Birthday Day of the Dead More... Embed this Literary Calendar on your website