2025 - Looking Further Ahead
Events and anniversaries coming up in 2025
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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. The year 2025 also marks the anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and we have compiled a timeline of WWII events here.
We also have a content list for 2024 and 2026. Our 2027 list is exclusive to akg-images clients so please get in touch 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
26 January: Paul Newman, American actor and entrepreneur - 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
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 - 50 years
30 April: Saigon falls, ending the Vietnam War - 50 years
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)
24 October: United Nations was founded - 80 years
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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