2023 - Looking Further Ahead

Events and anniversaries coming up in 2023

akg-images understand that many of you need to look for content more than a few months in advance, so we have created a list of significant births, deaths, and event anniversaries for the year 2023. ​ Each link takes you to an album with a brief text. ​ We will continue to add to it so please do check in to our Newsroom from time to time where you can find this and other stories.

2023 - Anniversaries of birth

50 Years +

16 August: Madonna, American entertainer - 65 years

31 December: Donna Summer, American singer/songwriter - 75 years

19 January: Janis Joplin, American singer - 80 years

24 January: Sharon Tate, American actress - 80 years

8 December: Jim Morrison, American singer - 80 years

7 April: James Garner, American actor - 95 years

100 Years +

22 March: Marcel Marceau, French mime artist - 100 years.

12 April: Ann Miller, American actress/entertainer - 100 years

7 May: Anne Baxter, American actress - 100 years

27 May: Henry Kissinger, American politician - 100 years

2 December: Maria Callas, Greek-American opera singer - 100 years

9 January: Gracie Fields, British entertainer - 125 years

22 June: Erich Maria Remarque, German soldier and author - 125 years

21 November: René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter - 125 years

20 April: Joan Miró, Spanish artist - 130 years

150 years +

30 March: Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch Post-Impressionist painter - 170 years

24 January: Vasily Ivanovich Surikov, Russian Realist painter - 175 years

12 March: Karl Hagemeister, German Impressionist painter - 175 years

22 May: Fritz von Uhde, German Realist-Impressionist painter - 175 years

7 June: Paul Gauguin, French post-Impressionist painter - 175 years

200 Years +

8 January - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist - 200 years

7 February: George Washington Wilson, Scottish photographer - 200 years

25 May: Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and essayist - 220 years

26 April: Eugene Delacroix, French Romantic painter - 225 years

3 April: Washington Irving, American author - 240 years

300 Years +

16 July: Sir Joshua Reynolds, British portrait painter - 300 years

400 Years +

19 June: Blaise Pascal, French mathematician - 400 years

7 December: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Baroque architect and sculptor - 425 years

8 July: Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian Baroque painter- 430 years

500 Years +

19 February: Nicolaus Copernicus, Renaissance polymath - 550 years


2023 - Anniversaries of death

10 Years +

5 December: Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist - 10 years

30 August: Charles Bronson, American actor - 20 years

20 January: Audrey Hepburn, Actress and humanitarian - 30 years

31 October: River Phoenix - American actor and musician - 30 years

25 December: Joan Miró, Spanish artist - 40 years

50 Years +

8 April: Pablo Picasso: 50 years

2 September: J.R.R. Tolkien, author - 50 years

23 September: Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet - 50 years

22 November: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, US president - 60 years

30 January: Mahatma Gandhi - 75 years

7 January: Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor - 80 years

22 February: Sophie Scholl, German student and political activist - 80 years

5 August: Karl Hagemeister, German Impressionist painter - 90 years

100 Years +

29 January: Elihu Vedder, American Symbolist painter- 100 years

26 March: Sarah Bernhardt, French actress - 100 years

10 August: Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Spanish Impressionist/Luminist painter - 100 years

14 December: Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, French Art Nouveau painter - 100 years

14 January: Lewis Carroll, English author - 125 years

16 March: Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator and author - 125 years

18 April: Gustave Moreau, French Symbolist painter - 125 years

20 September: Theodor Fontane, German novelist and poet - 125 years

200 Years +

8 July: Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish portrait painter - 200 years

300 Years +

8 March: Sir Christopher Wren, English polymath - 300 years

19 October: Sir Godfrey Kneller, German portrait painter - 300 years

500 Years +

2023: Pietro Perugino, Italian Renaissance painter- 500 years

16 October: Luca Signorelli, Italian Renaissance painter - 500 years


2023 - Event anniversaries

15 Years +

4 November: Barack Obama becomes first African-American President - 15 years

50 Years +

22 January: Roe vs Wade, landmark case which legalised abortion in the USA - 50 years

14 May: Skylab is launched into Earth orbit - 50 years

1 July: British Library was founded - 50 years

20 October: Sydney Opera House was founded - 50 years

16 June: Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space - 60 years

29 May: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summit Everest - 70 years

4 January: Myanmar (formerly Burma) gains independence - 75 years

3 April: The Marshall Plan is signed into law by President Truman- 75 years

22 June: Windrush Day - 75 years

24 June: Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift - 75 years

5 July: Founding of the NHS - 75th anniversary

2 February: The Battle of Stalingrad ends - 80 years

19th April: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 80 years

23 August: Battle of Kursk ends - 80 years

30 October: Orson Welles's radio broadcast of H.G Wells's War of the Worlds - 85 years

20 February: Blaine Act passes, signalling the end of US Prohibition - 90 years

5 December: Prohibition ends in the US - 90 years

100 Years +

16 February: Howard Carter opens the tomb of Tutankhamun - 100 years

26-27 May: 24 Hours of Le Mans - 100 years

13 July: Hollywood sign is inaugurated; "HOLLYWOODLAND" - 100 years

16 October: The Walt Disney Company is founded - 100 years

29 October: Turkey becomes a republic - 100 years

8 November: Beer Hall Putsch/Munich Putsch - 100 years

17 December: Orville and Wilbur Wright make their first successful flight - 120 years

21 April: Spanish-American War begins - 125 years

150 Years +

September: Panic of 1873 - 150 years

5 October: Crimean War began - 170 years

18 March: German revolutions of 1848-1849 - 175 years

250 Years +

16 December: Boston Tea Party - 250 years

 

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