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August 30:

Film releases
 * 2006 - Syndromes and a Century, a Thai science fiction drama film written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Births
 * 1797 - Mary Shelley (d. 1851), a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus