2027 - Looking Further Ahead

Events and anniversaries coming up in 2027

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

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

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 ​

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

400 Years +

1577: Founding of The Academy of Saint Luke in Rome - ​ 450 years

 

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