August 2022: Events and Anniversaries Preview
1 August 2022
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August 2022
2 August: Alexander Graham Bell - 100th anniversary of his death
2 August: Peter O'Toole - 90th anniversary of his birth
4 August: Marilyn Monroe - 60th anniversary of her death
8 August: Dustin Hoffman - 85th birthday
10 August: Norma Shearer - 120th anniversary of her birth
12 August: William Blake - 195th anniversary of his death
22 August: Claude Debussy - 160th anniversary of his birth
25 August: William Herschel - 200th anniversary of his death
15 August: Independence of India - 75th anniversary
21 August: Aubrey Beardsley - 150th anniversary of his birth
25 August: Prince George, Duke of Kent - 80th anniversary of his death
30 August: Mary Shelley - 225th anniversary of her birth
31 August: Henry V of England - 600th anniversary of his death
31 August: Diana, Princess of Wales - 25th anniversary of her death
September 2022
5 September: Mother Teresa of Calcutta - 25th anniversary of her death
5 - 6 September: Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics - 50th anniversary
6 September: Magellan's 'Victoria' circumnavigates the world - 500th anniversary
7 September: Independence of Brazil - 200th anniversary
8 September: Leon Bonnat - 100th anniversary of his death
10 September: Otto Haeckel - 150th anniversary of his birth
21 September: Stephen King - 75th birthday
23 September: Paul Delvaux - 125th anniversary of his birth
27 September: The Rosetta Stone is deciphered - 200th anniversary
29 September: Roy Lichtenstein - 25th anniversary of his death
October 2022
2 October: Paul von Hindenburg - 175th anniversary of his birth
3 October: Pierre Bonnard - 155th anniversary of his birth
4 October: Lucas Cranach the Elder - 550th anniversary of his birth
4 October: Jackie Collins - 85th anniversary of her birth
6 October: Le Corbusier - 135th anniversary of his birth
6 October: Yevgeny Khaldei - 25th anniversary of his death
12 October: Columbus reaches the Americas - 530th anniversary
13 October: Antonio Canova - 200th anniversary of his death
16 October: Cuban Missile Crisis - 60th anniversary
18 October: The BBC turns 100 years old
19 October: Umberto Boccioni - 140th anniversary of his birth
21 October: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 250th anniversary of his birth
26 October: Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin - 180th anniversary of his birth
28 October: Mussolini's March on Rome - 100th anniversary
28 October: Canaletto - 325th anniversary of his birth
November 2022
4 November: Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb - 100th anniversary
4 November: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - 175th anniversary of his death
5 November: Ida Tarbell - 165th anniversary of her birth
8 November: Bram Stoker - 175th anniversary of his birth
10 November: William Hogarth - 325th anniversary of his birth
15 November: Georgia O'Keeffe - 135th anniversary of her birth
18 November: Marcel Proust - 100th anniversary of his death
23 November: Agnolo Bronzino - 450th anniversary of his death
27 November: Jimi Hendrix - 80th anniversary of his birth
29 November: Jacques Chirac - 90th anniversary of his birth
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