August 2024: Events and Anniversaries Preview

Welcome to your akg-images August preview with content ideas for the coming months and albums of supporting images. 

August is a bumper month for animal lovers with International Cat Day, World Elephant Day, and International Orangutan Day. International Beer Day is also celebrated in August.

Sadly, we share the news that Serge Domingie, photographer of the renowned Rabatti & Domingie collection, died on 24th July after a short illness.

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We'd like to remind you that our office will be closed from 1.30 pm on 16th August for our team summer party, and all day on 26th August for the UK Bank Holiday.

Featured Story: ​ Kjeld Duits collection - akg-images is pleased to announce that we now represent this boutique journalism and stock photography agency in Tokyo. Kjeld Duits focuses on imagery that portrays daily life in Japan - particularly customs, people at work, street views and architecture.

Maiko in a hammock. AKG11036668 © akg-images / Kjeld DuitsYoung Japanese family. 19th century vintage albumen photograph. AKG11034129 © akg-images / Kjeld DuitsThe Zen Buddhist temple Kinkaku-ji (Temple of the Golden Pavilion) in the snow, Kyoto. AKG11035372 © akg-images / Kjeld Duits

Liberation of Paris. AKG7913793 © akg-imagesJoseph Conrad. AKG3837112 © akg-images / Pictures From History

Alfred Hitchcock on the set of "Suspicion," 1941. AKG7332916 © akg-images / Album / Rko"Whistlejacket' by George Stubbs. AKG1559194 © National Gallery Global Limited / akg-images

August 2024

1 August: WWII The Warsaw Uprising - 80th anniversary

2 August: James Baldwin - 100th birthday anniversary

3 August: Joseph Conrad - 100th anniversary of his death

9 August: WWII destruction of the Lodz Ghetto - 80th anniversary

11 August: Alcatraz Island opens as a federal penitentiary ​ - 90th anniversary

12 August: Robert Southey - 250th birthday anniversary

13 August: Alfred Hitchcock - 125th birthday anniversary

15 August: WWII Operation Dragoon - 80th anniversary

16 August: James Cameron - 70th birthday

19 - 25 August: WWII Liberation of Paris - 80th anniversary, see also our exclusive images of the Liberation of Paris by René Zuber

23 August: The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact is signed - 85th anniversary

25 August: George Stubbs - 300th birthday anniversary

26 August: Charles Lindbergh - 50th anniversary of his death

28 August: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 275th birthday anniversary

Caspar David Friedrich. AKG260369 © akg-imagesIvan Pavlov. AKG2455785 © akg-images / Universal Images Group / Sovfoto

Twiggy. AKG6097169 © akg-images / TT News AgencyArnold Schoenberg. AKG106674 © akg-images

September 2024

1 September: Invasion of Poland, sparking WWII - 85th anniversary

1 September: Lily Tomlin - 85th birthday

1 September: Richard Arlen - 125th birthday anniversary

4 September: Anton Bruckner - 200th birthday anniversary

5 September: Caspar David Friedrich - 250th birthday anniversary

8 September: Ludovico Ariosto - 550th birthday anniversary

10 September: Thomas Sydenham - 400th birthday anniversary

13 September: Arnold Schoenberg - 150th birthday anniversary

16 September: Lauren Bacall - 100th birthday anniversary

17 September: WWII Operation Market Garden - 80th anniversary

19 September: Twiggy - 75th birthday

26 September: Ivan Pavlov - 175th birthday anniversary

28 September: Brigitte Bardot - 90th birthday

28 September: Marcello Mastroianni - 100th birthday anniversary

30 September: Truman Capote - 100th birthday anniversary

People's Republic of China is established. AKG3836045 © akg-images / Pictures From HistoryJimmy Carter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. AKG8390667 © akg-images/Glasshouse/ Circa Images

History of 'Kamikaze', after the first kamikaze attack in WWII. AKG3835755 © akg-images / Pictures From HistoryIndira Gandhi. AKG2041320 © akg-images / brandstaetter images / Nora Schuster

October 2024

1 October: Jimmy Carter - 100th birthday

1 October: People's Republic of China is established - 75th anniversary

5 October: Marie Laforêt - 85th birthday anniversary

5 October: Louis Lumière - 160th birthday anniversary

6 October: WWII Battle of Hürtgen Forest - 80th anniversary

9 October: Nicholas Roerich - 150th birthday anniversary

14 October: Thanksgiving (Canada)

15 October: Friedrich Nietzsche - 180th birthday anniversary

16 October: Otto Mueller - 150th birthday anniversary

16 October: Oscar Wilde - 170th birthday anniversary

17 October: Frederic Chopin - 175th anniversary of death

23 October: WWII Battle of Leyte Gulf - 80th anniversary

25 October: WWII First Kamikaze attack - 80th anniversary

31 October: Indira Gandhi - 40th anniversary of her assassination

Shirley Chisholm AKG8281596 © akg-images/Glasshouse/ Circa ImagesHenri Matisse AKG1006926 © akg-images

COP 29 Climate Conference AKG9084468 © akg-images / IKON images / Taylor CalleryFall of the Berlin Wall AKG987135 © akg-images / Kai-Olaf Hesse

November 2024

1 November: Algerian War of Independence begins - 70th anniversary

2 November: Jean Siméon Chardin - 325th birthday anniversary

3 November: Henri Matisse - 70th anniversary of his death

4 November: Iranian Hostage Crisis begins - 45th anniversary

5 November: Guy Fawkes Day (UK)

9 November: Fall of the Berlin Wall and Prezi ​ - 35th anniversary

9 November: Hedy Lamarr - 110th birthday anniversary

11 November: Armistice Day / Remembrance Day

11 - 22 November: COP29 Climate Conference

27 November: Chaim Weizmann - 150th birthday anniversary

28 November: Thanksgiving (USA)

29 November: Giacomo Puccini - 100th anniversary of his death

30 November: Winston Churchill - 150th birthday anniversary

30 November: Shirley Chisholm - 100th birthday anniversary

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