Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales; International Animal Rights Day; Release of The Animal People documentary; Raven and the Whale, from the sacred stories of the Inuit peoples.

Genocide Prevention Day; International Day of Veterinarian Medicine; National Llama Day; Publication of Animal Minds and Human Morals, by Richard Sorabji; Publication of Animals and World Religions, by Lisa Kemmerer; If I Must Die, by Refaat Alareer.

National Lard Day; Birthday of Meagan Duhamel; A Meditation by Madeleine L’Engle, from Glimpses of Grace.

Birthday of Babette Davis; Publication of Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene, by Jo-Anne McArthur; Publication of Animal Law in a Nutshell, by Sonia Waisman, Pamela Frasch, and Katherine Hessler; I Heard a Bird Sing, by Oliver Herford.

National Gazpacho Day; Publication of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains, by Bethany Brookshire; Ode to Tomatoes, by Pablo Neruda.

World Soil Day; Release of With My Own Eyes documentary; Publication of How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older, by Michael Greger M.D.; My Youth, by William Henry Davies.

International Cheetah Day; Birthday of Frances Power Cobbe; Birthday of J. Howard Moore; Birthday of Captain Peter Hammarstedt; A Prayer for Today.

Birthday of Daryl Hannah; Publication of Animal Gospel, by Andrew Linzey; Publication of Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World, by Jordi Casamitjana; December, by Christopher Pearce Cranch.