2026 - Looking Further Ahead
Events and anniversaries coming up in 2026
1 June 2023
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 2026. Each link takes you to an album with a brief text. We will continue to add to it, so please check in occasionally.
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2026 - Anniversaries of birth
50 Years +
30 January: Phil Collins, British musician - 75 years
9 January: Joan Baez, American singer - 85 years
24 January: Neil Diamond, American singer and actor - 85 years
100 Years +
15 January: Maria Schell, Austrian actress - 100 years
20 January: Patricia Neal, American actress - 100 years
2 February: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician - 100 years
3 February: Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician - 100 years
16 March: Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian - 100 years
2 April: Jack Brabham, Australian racing driver - 100 years
21 April: Queen Elizabeth II, British monarch - 100 years
26 May: Miles Davis, African American jazz musician - 100 years
1 June: Marilyn Monroe, American actress - 100 years
25 June: Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet and author - 100 years
28 June: Mel Brooks, American actor and comedian - 100 years
13 August: Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician - 100 years
18 October: Chuck Berry, American musician - 100 years
6 February: Ronald Reagan, former US actor and President - 115 years
1 February: Clark Gable, American actor - 125 years
4 August: Louis Armstrong, American singer and trumpeter - 125 years
27 December: Marlene Dietrich, German actress - 125 years
150 Years +
3 January: Wilhelm Pieck, East German politician - 150 years
12 January: Jack London, American author - 150 years
8 February: Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter - 150 years
3 February: Wilhelm Trübner, German painter - 175 years
8 July: Arthur Evans, British archaeologist - 175 years
200 Years +
29 March: Wilhelm Liebknecht, German politician - 200 years
6 April: Gustave Moreau, French Symbolist painter - 200 years
3 November: Vincenzo Bellini, Sicilian composer - 225 years
24 January: E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer and artist - 250 years
11 June: John Constable, English Romantic painter - 250 years
300 Years +
18 January: Prince Henry of Prussia - 300 years
16 October: Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish artist - 300 years
400 Years +
5 February: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French writer - 400 years
17 December: Queen Christina of Sweden - 400 years
500 Years +
24 January: Hadrian, Roman emperor - 1950 years
2026 - Anniversaries of death
25 Years +
11 June: Brigitte Helm, German actress - 30 years
12 January: Agatha Christie, English writer - 50 years
1 April: Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor and poet - 50 years
20 April: Jeanne Mammen, German painter and illustrator - 50 years
9 September: Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China - 50 years
5 December: Fritz Lang, Austrian film director - 50 years
2 July: Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German physician and surgeon- 75 years
13 January: James Joyce, Irish writer - 85 years
100 Years +
7 January: Paul Cassirer, German art dealer/publisher - 100 years
30 April: Bessie Coleman, American aviator - 100 years
10 June: Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect - 100 years
14 June: Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter - 100 years
23 August: Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor - 100 years
31 October: Harry Houdini, Hungarian/American magician and performer - 100 years
5 December: Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter - 100 years
14 December: Théo van Rysselberghe, Belgian neo-Impressionist painter - 100 years
22 January: Queen Victoria - 125 years
150 Years +
8 June: George Sand, French writer and feminist - 150 years
27 June: Harriet Martineau, English sociologist - 150 years
27 January: John James Audubon, American artist/ornithologist - 175 years
1 February: Mary Shelley, English writer - 175 years
10 July: Louis Daguerre, French artist and pioneering photographer - 175 years
14 September: James Fenimore Cooper, American writer - 175 years
200 Years +
4 July: Thomas Jefferson, former US President - 200 years
4 July: John Adams, former US President - 200 years
25 March: Novalis, German writer and philosopher - 225 years
400 Years +
9 April: Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman - 400 years
24 October: Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer - 425 years
27 August: Titian, Italian Renaissance painter - 450 years
600 Years +
8 June: Edward, The Black Prince - 650 years
2026 - Event anniversaries
25 Years +
17 March: Eden Project opens - 25 years
1 April: The Netherlands becomes the first country to legalise same-sex marriage - 25 years
11 September: September 11 attacks - 25 years
50 Years +
21 October: Aberfan disaster - 60 years
23 October: The Hungarian Revolution - 70 years
11 December: Edward VIII's abdication - 90 years
11 December: George VI becomes king - 90 years
100 Years +
6 August: Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the Channel - 100 years
7 August: The first British Grand Prix held - 100 years
25 December: Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan - 100 years
22 January: Edward VII is proclaimed king - 125 years
200 Years +
4 July: United States Declaration of Independence - 250 years
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