2027 - Looking Further Ahead
Events and anniversaries coming up in 2027
3 April 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 2027. Each link takes you to an album with a brief text. We will continue to add to it so please check in occasionally.
Here are our events and anniversaries lists for 2025 and 2026.
2027 - Anniversaries of birth
50 Years +
20 June: Nicole Kidman, Australian/American actress and producer - 60 years
27 September: Nick Cave, Australian musician, screenwriter and actor - 70 years
8 January: David Bowie, British singer and actor - 80 years
19 June: Salman Rushdie, British-American novelist - 80 years
20 July: Carlos Santana, American musician - 80 years
17 January: Muhammad Ali, American boxer - 85 years
24 April: Barbra Streisand, American singer and actress - 85 years
8 January: Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer - 90 years
9 July: David Hockney, British painter and printmaker - 90 years
8 August: Dustin Hoffman, American actor - 90 years
100 Years
1 January: Maurice Béjart, French-born dancer / choreographer - 100 years
17 January: Eartha Kitt, American singer and actress - 100 years
28 January: Ronnie Scott, British saxophonist and jazz club owner - 100 years
2 February: Stan Getz, American jazz saxophonist - 100 years
7 February: Juliette Gréco, French singer - 100 years
20 February: Sidney Poitier, Bahamian/American actor, director, and diplomat - 100 years
20 February: Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer - 100 years
6 March: Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer - 100 years
24 March: Martin Walser, German writer - 100 years
2 April: Rita Gam, American actress and documentary filmmaker - 100 years
6 April: Gerry Mulligan, American jazz musician - 100 years
7 April: Wolfgang Mattheuer, German painter, graphic artist and sculptor - 100 years
3 July: Ken Russell, British film director - 100 years
4 July: Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress and model - 100 years
18 July: Kurt Masur, German composer - 100 years
24 July: Alex Katz, American painter - 100 years
20 September: John Dankworth, British musician and composer - 100 years
16 October: Günter Grass, German writer and artist - 100 years
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125 Years
31 January: Tallulah Bankhead, American actress - 125 years
1 February: Langston Hughes, African American writer and poet - 125 years
4 February: Charles Lindbergh, American aviator - 125 years
11 February: Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and furniture designer - 125 years
20 February: Ansel Adams, American photographer - 125 years
27 February: John Steinbeck, American writer - 125 years
17 April: Walter Limot, German photographer - 125 years
21 May: Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-born architect and designer - 125 years
28 July: Karl Popper, Austrian/British philosopher - 125 years
10 August: Norma Shearer, Canadian actress - 125 years
22 August: Leni Riefenstahl, German film director - 125 years
18 October: Miriam Hopkins, American actress - 125 years
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150 Years
26 January: Kees van Dongen, Dutch/French Fauvist painter - 150 years
15 April: Georg Kolbe, German sculptor - 150 years
3 June: Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist painter - 150 years
22 December: Josef Maria Olbrich, Austrian designer and architect - 150 years
175 Years
25 June: Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect - 175 years
200 Years
2 April: William Holman Hunt, English painter - 200 years
5 April: Joseph Lister, English surgical pioneer - 200 years
25 October: Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician - 200 years
31 October: Richard Morris Hunt, American architect - 200 years
225 Years
6 February: Charles Wheatstone, English scientist and inventor - 225 years
26 February: Victor Hugo, French writer - 225 years
12 June: Harriet Martineau, English sociologist - 225 years
24 July: Alexander Dumas, French writer - 225 years
250 Years
2 January: Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor - 250 years
30 April: Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist - 250 years
24 June: John Ross, English naval officer and explorer - 250 years
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275 Years
23 January: Muzio Clementi, Italian composer - 275 years
300 Years
10 May: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French statesman - 300 years
14 May: Thomas Gainsborough, English portrait and landscape painter - 300 years
400 Years +
25 January: Robert Boyle, Irish chemist - 400 years
28 June: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter - 450 years
500 Years
c. 1527: Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian mannerist painter - 500 years
4 or 14 April: Abraham Ortelius, Brabantian cartographer - 500 years
13 July: John Dee, English mathematician and scientist - 500 years
575 Years
21 September: Girolamo Savonarola, Italian Dominican friar and philosopher - 575 years
650 Years
c. 1377: Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian sculptor and architect - 650 years
2027 - Anniversaries of death
25 Years +
21 January: Peggy Lee, American singer and actress - 25 years
28 January: Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author - 25 years
1 February: Hildegard Knef, German actress and singer - 25 years
9 February: Princess Margaret - 25 years
30 March: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother - 25 years
21 May: Niki de Saint Phalle, French-American sculptor and painter - 25 years
7 November: Rudolf Augstein, German journalist and politician - 25 years
19 March: Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter - 30 years
22 February: Andy Warhol, American artist - 40 years
50 Years
2 March: Gerta Overbeck - German painter - 50 years
10 May: Joan Crawford, American actress - 50 years
14 August: Elvis Presley, American singer and actor - 50 years
16 September: Maria Callas, soprano and opera singer - 50 years
10 October: Lea Grundig, German painter and graphic artist - 50 years
75 Years +
6 February: King George VI - 75 years
25 January: Al Capone, American gangster - 80 years
100 Years
11 May: Juan Gris, Spanish Cubist painter - 100 years
28 May: Boris Kustodiev, Russian/Soviet painter and stage designer - 100 years
14 September: Isadora Duncan, US dancer and choreographer - 100 years
150 Years
18 April: Franz Hanfstaengl, German printmaker and photographer - 150 years
17 September: William Henry Fox Talbot, English photography pioneer - 150 years
23 September: Urbain le Verrier, French astronomer and mathematician - 150 years
31 December: Gustave Courbet, French Realist painter - 150 years
175 Years
6 January: Louis Braille, French educator and inventor of the Braille system - 175 years
11 June: Karl Bryullov, Russian painter - 175 years
200 Years
15 March: Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and chemist - 200 years
26 March: Ludwig von Beethoven, German composer and pianist - 200 years
21 April: Thomas Rowlandson, British artist and caricaturist - 200 years
12 August: William Blake, English painter and poet - 200 years
300 Years
31 March: Isaac Newton, English polymath - 300 years
500 Years +
15 April: Leonardo da Vinci - Italian Renaissance polymath - 575 years
600 Years +
21 June: King Edward III of England - 650 years
800 Years
25 August: Genghis Khan - 800 years
2027 - Event anniversaries
25 Years
1 January: Introduction of the Euro - 25 years
50 Years +
31 January: Centre Pompidou officially opened - 50 years
3 November: Laika the dog leaves Earth aboard Sputnik 2 - 70 years
6 February: Queen Elizabeth II accedes to the throne - 75 years
5 December: Great Smog of 1952 - 75 years
3 June: The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson - 90 years
100 Years
10 January: Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang is released - 100 years
14 April: First Volvo car released in Sweden - 100 years
23 August: Execution of Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti - 100 years
150 Years
4 March: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake performed for the first time - 150 years
200 Years
20 October: Battle of Navarino - 200 years
450 Years
1577: Founding of The Academy of Saint Luke in Rome - 450 years
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