2023 - Looking Further Ahead
Events and anniversaries coming up in 2023
30 November 2022
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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