2025 - Looking Further Ahead
Events and anniversaries coming up in 2025
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 2025. Each link takes you to an album with a brief text. We will continue to add to it so please check back for changes.
We also have a content list for 2024 and 2026. Our 2027 list is exclusive to akg-images clients so please contact us using the details at the bottom of the page.
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2025 - Anniversaries of birth
50 Years +
6 February: Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician - 80 years
1 July: Debbie Harry, American singer - 80 years
1 December: Bette Midler, American singer and actress - 80 years
25 April: Al Pacino, American actor - 85 years
7 July: Ringo Starr, British musician - 85 years
6 July: The Dalai Lama - 90 years
8 November: Alain Delon, French actor/filmmaker - 90 years
100 Years
20 January: Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest and politician - 100 years
31 March: Bernhard Heisig, German artist - 100 years
26 March: Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor - 100 years
31 March: Bernhard Heisig, German painter and graphic artist - 100 years
19 May: Malcolm X, American civil rights activist - 100 years
3 June: Tony Curtis, American actor - 100 years
29 July: Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer and lyricist - 100 years
15 August: Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist/composer - 100 years
6 September: Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer - 100 years
16 September: BB King, American singer/musician - 100 years
13 October: Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister - 100 years
22 December: Walter Womacka, German Socialist Realist artist - 100 years
27 December: Michel Piccoli, French actor - 100 years
28 December: Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer - 100 years
125 Years +
5 April: Spencer Tracy, American Actor - 125 years
12 May: Helene Weigel, German actress - 125 years
25 June: Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten - 125 years
25 August: Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher - 125 years
19 November: Anna Seghers, German writer - 125 years
5 April: Mistinguett, French actress/singer - 150 years
6 June: Thomas Mann, German writer - 150 years
3 July: Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German physician and surgeon - 150 years
21 July: Oskar Moll, German Fauvist painter - 150 years
30 December: Rudyard Kipling - 160 years
24 June: Lord Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener - 175 years
200 Years +
25 October: Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer - 200 years
30 November: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French Academic painter - 200 years
23 April: J.M.W. Turner, English Romantic painter - 250 years
16 December: Jane Austen, English writer - 250 years
300 Years +
2 April: Giacomo Casanova, Italian author/adventurer - 300 years
21 August: Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French portrait/genre painter - 300 years
400 Years+
13 May: Carlo Maratta, Italian painter - 400 years
500 Years +
24 February: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor - 525 years
6 March: Michelangelo, Italian painter/sculptor/architect/poet - 550 years
2025: Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter - 575 years
800 Years+
(Date unknown) 1225: - Thomas Aquinas, philosopher and theologian - 800 years
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2025 - Anniversaries of death
20 Years +
2 April: Pope John Paul II - 20 years
4 November: Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister - 30 years
50 Years +
15 March: Aristotle Onassis, shipping tycoon - 50 years
12 April: Josephine Baker, French entertainer, activist and agent - 50 years
4 December: Hannah Arendt, Jewish writer/political thinker - 50 years
7 December: Thornton Wilder, American writer - 50 years
21 February: Malcolm X , American civil rights activist - 60 years
27 August: Le Corbusier, Architect, designer, and painter - 60 years
15 January: Yves Tanguy, French Surrealist painter - 70 years
30 September: James Dean, American actor - 70 years
11 March: Heinrich Mann, German writer - 75 years
27 December: Max Beckmann, German painter/sculptor/writer - 75 years
12 April: Franklin D Roosevelt, US President - 80 years
28 April: Benito Mussolini - 80 years
30 April: Adolph Hitler - 80 years
15 August: Paul Signac, French Neo-Impressionist painter, 90 years
100 Years
28 February: Friedrich Ebert, German politician - 100 years
14 April: John Singer Sargent, American painter - 100 years
1 July: Erik Satie, French composer and musician - 100 years
17 July: Lovis Corinth, German painter and draughtsman - 100 years
29 December: Felix Vallotton, Swiss/German painter - 100 years
125 Years +
20 January: John Ruskin, British polymath - 125 years
4 August: Isaac Ilyich Levitan, Russian painter - 125 years
30 November: Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright - 125 years
25 August: Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher - 125 years
20 January: Jean-François Millet, French Realism painter - 150 years
22 February: (Jean-Baptiste) Camille Corot, French Romantic painter - 150 years
15 October: Theodor Hosemann, German painter and illustrator - 150 years
27 January: Johann Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor - 175 years
200 Years +
17 April: Henry Fuseli, Swiss Romantic painter - 200 years
27 April: Dominique-Vivant Denon, French author and archaeologist - 200 years
29 December: Jacques-Louis David, French Neoclassical painter - 200 years
300 Years +
8 February: Peter I of Russia - 300 years
9 February: Gerrit Dou, Dutch Golden Age painter - 350 years
December: Johannes Vermeer, Dutch Baroque painter - 350 years
400 Years +
13 January: Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter - 400 years
16 November: Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian Renaissance painter - 400 years
500 Years +
4 August: Andrea della Robbia, Italian Renaissance sculptor - 500 years
600 Years +
2025: Lorenzo Monaco, late Gothic-early Renaissance painter - 600 years
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2025 - Event anniversaries
30 Years
11 July: Srebrenica Massacre - 30 years
50 Years +
17 April: Cambodian Genocide begins
30 April: Saigon falls, ending the Vietnam War
25 June: Korean War begins - 75 years
1945: Zero Hour and 1945 anniversaries for WWII - 80 years
27 January: Liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp - 80 years (graphic content)
4 February: Yalta Conference begins - 80 years
13 February: Bombing of Dresden commences, WW2 - 80 years (graphic content)
15 April: Liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - 80 years (graphic content)
8 May: VE Day, WW2 - 80 years
6 August: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima - 80 years (graphic content)
15 August: VJ Day, WW2 - 80 years (UK)
2 September: VJ Day, WW2 - 80 years (US)
100 Years +
2025: Bauhaus moves to Dessau - 100 years
April: The Great Gatsby is published - 100 years
26 April: Paul von Hindenburg is elected President of the German Reich - 100 years
16 October: Signing of the Locarno Agreements - 100 years
21 December: Premier of "Battleship Potemkin" - 100 years
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