2024 - Looking Further Ahead
Events and anniversaries coming up in 2024
30 November 2022
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We 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 2024. Each link takes you to an album with a brief text. We will continue to add to it so please check in on it for changes. We also have a content list for 2025 and 2026.
2024 - Anniversaries of birth
50 Years +
17 January: Michelle Obama, Former US First Lady - 60 years
28 September: Brigitte Bardot, French actress - 90 years
100 Years +
13 January: Roland Petit, French dancer/choreographer - 100 years
19 February: Lee Marvin, American actor - 100 years
20 February: Gloria Vanderbilt, American heiress/actress/designer - 100 years
27 March: Sarah Vaughan, American Jazz singer - 100 years
3 April: Marlon Brando, American actor - 100 years
29 April: Zizi Jeanmaire, French dancer/actress/singer - 100 years
12 June: George H W Bush, Former US President - 100 years
4 July: Eva Marie Saint, American actress - 100 years
2 August: James Baldwin, American writer/social critic - 100 years
16 September: Lauren Bacall, American actress- 100 years
28 September: Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor - 100 years
30 September: Truman Capote, American writer/actor - 100 years
1 October: Jimmy Carter, US president - 100 years
7 December: Mario Soares, Portuguese politician - 100 years
5 May: Tyrone Power, American actor - 110 years
9 November: Hedy Lamarr, Actress and inventor - 110 years
11 May: Salvador Dali, Spanish Surrealist painter - 120 years
125 Years +
7 January: Francis Poulenc, French composer and pianist - 125 years
17 January: Al Capone, American gangster - 125 years
6 February: Ramon Novarro, Mexican-American actor - 125 years
21 July: Ernest Hemingway, American writer - 125 years
13 August: Alfred Hitchcock, British director/writer/producer - 125 years
150 Years +
3 February: Gertrude Stein, American writer/art collector - 150 years
15 February: Sir Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer - 150 years
24 March: Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American stunt performer - 150 years
9 May: Howard Carter, British archaeologist and Egyptologist - 150 years
17 July: Ludwig Hohlwein, German poster artist/painter - 150 years
13 September: Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-American composer - 150 years
9 October: Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter/writer/philosopher- 150 years
16 October: Otto Mueller, German Expressionist painter - 150 years
30 November: Winston Churchill, British statesman - 150 years
12 January: Jean Beraud, French painter - 175 years
24 February - Franz Skarbina, German Impressionist painter - 175 years
21 May: Henri Rousseau, French post-Impressionist painter- 180 years
22 May: Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter - 180 years
15 October: Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher - 180 years
200 Years +
27 January: Jozef Israëls, Dutch Realist painter - 200 years
11 May: Jean-Léon Gérôme, French Academic painter - 200 years
12 July: Eugène Boudin, French Impressionist painter - 200 years
14 December: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French Symbolist painter - 200 years
5 September: Caspar David Friedrich, German Romantic painter - 250 years
28 August: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet/statesman/critic - 275 years
300 Years +
22 April: Immanuel Kant, German philosopher - 300 years
25 August: George Stubbs, English painter - 300 years
400 years +
6 June: Diego Velazquez, Spanish Baroque painter - 425 years
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2024 - Anniversaries of death
20 Years +
10 February: Shirley Temple Black, US entertainer and ambassador - 10 years
5 June: Ronald Reagan, former US actor and President - 20 years
25 March: Yehudi Menuhin, American conductor/violinist - 25 years
22 April: Richard Nixon, US president - 30 Years
23 January: Salvador Dali, Spanish Surrealist painter- 35 years
2 April: Georges Pompidou, French politician - 50 years
26 August: Charles Lindbergh, American aviator - 50 years
13 July: Frida Kahlo, Mexican Surrealist painter - 70 years
3 November: Henri Matisse, French painter/ draughtsman/collagist - 70 years
23 January: Edvard Munch, Norwegian Expressionist painter - 80 years
13 December: Wassily Kandinsky, Russian painter and art theorist - 80 years
26 December: Julie Wolfthorn, German painter and graphic artist - 80 years
100 Years +
21 January: Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary - 100 years
3 February: Woodrow Wilson, US president - 100 years
3 June: Franz Kafka, Bohemian writer - 100 years
27 July: Ferruccio Busoni, Italian composer - 100 years
3 August: Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer - 100 years
29 November: Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer - 100 years
28 December: Léon Bakst, Russian painter/costume designer - 100 years
17 October: Frederic Chopin, Polish composer and pianist - 175 years
200 Years +
26 January: Théodore Géricault, French Romantic painter - 200 years
19 April: Lord Byron, English poet - 200 years
10 May: Louis XV, King of France - 250 years
400 Years +
21 February: Dirck van Baburen, Dutch Painter - 400 years
27 June: Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter/architect/writer - 450 years
500 Years +
2024: Hans Holbein the Elder, German late Gothic/early Renaissance painter - 500 years
24 December: Vasco da Gama - 500 years
700 Years +
8 January: Marco Polo, Italian merchant/adventurer - 700 years
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2024 - Event anniversaries
35 Years +
9 November: Fall of the Berlin Wall and Prezi - 35 years
50 Years +
29 March: Terracotta Warriors unearthed in Xian, China - 50 years
6 April: ABBA win Eurovision Song Contest with "Waterloo" - 50 years
75 Years +
4 April: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating NATO - 75 years
8 June: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published - 75 years
27 January: Siege of Leningrad ends - 80 years (graphic content)
6 June: Normandy landings - 80 years
16 December: Battle of the Bulge begins - 80 years
200 Years +
4 February: George Washington elected as first President of the USA - 235 years
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