1. August

Pierre Bourdieu (1930)
Ernst Jandl (1925)
Herman Melville (1819)
Bernward Vesper (1938)

2. August

Isabel Allende (1942)
James Baldwin (1924)
Joseph Hayes (1918)
Philippe Soupault (1897)

3. August

Heike Doutiné (1945)
Christoph Geiser (1949)
P.D. James (1920)
Leon Uris (1924)

4. August

Béla Balázs (1884)
Hans Jürgen Fröhlich (1932)
Witold Gombrowicz (1904)
Knut Hamsun (1859)
René Schickele (1883)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792)

5. August

Conrad Potter Aiken (1889)
Guy de Maupassant (1850)

6. August

Paul Claudel (1868)
Christa Reinig (1926)
Jossi Wieler (1951)

7. August

Nelson Goodman (1906)
Richard Müller-Freienfels (1882)
Joachim Ringelnatz (1883)
Michael Roes (1960)
Dieter Schlesak (1934)
Vladimir Sorokin (1955)

8. August

Birgit Vanderbeke (1956)

9. August

Willi Heinrich (1920)
Pierre Klossowski (1905)
Tommaso Landolfi (1908)
Klaus Nonnenmann (1922)
Jean Piaget (1896)
Armand Salacrou (1899)

10. August

Jorge Amado (1912)
Alfred Döblin (1878)
Jean-François Lyotard (1924)
Emine Sevgi Özdamar (1946)
Helmut Qualtinger (1928)

11. August

Fernando Arrabal (1932)
Enid Blyton (1896)
Eduard Devrient (1801)
Alex Haley (1921)
Ernst Stadler (1883)

12. August

Karl Mickel (1935)
Hans-Ulrich Treichel (1952)

13. August

Rudolf Georg Binding (1867)
Nikolaus Lenau (1802)

14. August

John Galsworthy (1867)
René Goscinny (1926)
Giorgio Strehler (1921)
Erwin Strittmatter (1912)
Wolf Wondratschek (1943)

15. August

Matthias Claudius (1740)
Kay Hoff (1924)
Wolfgang Hohlbein (1953)
Leonie Ossowski (1925)
Thomas Quincey (1785)
Walter Scott (1771)

16. August

Reiner Kunze (1933)
Moritz Rinke (1967)

17. August

Theodor Däubler (1876)
Ted Hughes (1930)
Herta Müller (1953)
V.S. Naipaul (1932)
Roger Peyrefitte (1907)

18. August

Elsa Morante (1918)
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922)
Ulrich Woelk (1960)

19. August

Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909)
Arnolt Bronnen (1895)
Barbara Bronnen (1938)

20. August

Henryk M. Broder (1946)
Emily Jane Brontë (1818)
Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1884)
H.P. Lovecraft (1890)
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901)

21. August

Korfiz Holm (1872)

22. August

Ray Bradbury (1920)
Gorch Fock (1880)
Hansgünther Heyme (1935)
Arthur Holitscher (1869)
Irmtraud Morgner (1933)
Dorothy Parker (1893)
Max Scheler (1874)
Wolfdietrich Schnurre (1920)

23. August

Arthur Adamov (1908)
Ephraim Kishon (1924)

24. August

Sascha Anderson (1953)
Aubrey V. Beardsley (1872)
Jorge Luis Borges (1899)
Michael Kleeberg (1959)
Friedrich Luft (1911)
Jean Rhys (1890)
Joshua Sobol (1939)

25. August

Maxim Biller (1960)
Frederick Forsyth (1938)
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744)
Thomas Meinecke (1955)

26. August

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880)
Martin Beradt (1881)
Ferdinand Bruckner (1891)
Julio Cortázar (1914)
Walter Helmut Fritz (1929)
Joachim Helfer (1964)
Christopher Isherwood (1904)
Angelika Mechtel (1943)
Jules Romains (1885)

27. August

Cecil Scott Forester (1899)
Undine Gruenter (1952)
Johann Georg Hamann (1730)
Georg W. Friedrich Hegel (1770)
Peter Henisch (1943)
Jeanette Winterson (1959)

28. August

Hermann Essig (1878)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749)
Liam O`Flaherty (1896)
Karl Simrock (1802)
Ernst Weiss (1884)

29. August

Ernst Kreuder (1903)
John Locke (1632)
Hermann Löns (1866)
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862)

30. August

Libuse Moníková (1945)
Mary Shelley (1797)

31. August

Emil Faktor (1876)
Théophile Gautier (1811)
Wolfgang Hilbig (1941)