August 2025: Events and Anniversaries Preview
31 July 2025
Welcome to your akg-images preview for August 2025. Scroll down to find content ideas for the coming months and curated albums of supporting images.
August brings us the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. On a lighter note, we also have International Beer Day, World Elephant Day and the internet's favourite day International Cat Day.
Our featured source for the month is Paul Almásy - a long-standing favourite at akg-images and widely regarded as one of the great chroniclers of the 20th century, particularly 1950s and 1960s Paris. Over the course of three decades, Almásy travelled the globe extensively—often spending up to ten months a year on the road—documenting the lives, cultures, and people of countless countries with a striking eye for humanity and detail.
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Featured Story: Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990)
The Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) was a brutal conflict fuelled by sectarian rivalries, foreign interventions, and shifting alliances. Marked by atrocities such as the Damour massacre in 1976 and the Sabra and Shatila massacre in 1982, it left over 120,000 dead and reshaped Lebanon’s political and social fabric.
Men rescue an injured girl after a car bomb attack in western Beirut. The explosion left 14 dead and 83 injured and destroyed five buildings. Photo, 05.12.1983 AKG8325794 © Philippe Ledru / akg-images
PLO positions "Aun el Delb" in southern Lebanon, December 1987. AKG10343136 ©akg-images / Guenay Ulutuncok
August 2025
4 August: Andrea della Robbia - 500th anniversary of his death
4 August: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother - 125th birthday anniversary
4 August: Isaac Ilyich Levitan - 125th anniversary of his death
6 August: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima - 80th anniversary (graphic content)
9 August: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki - 80th anniversary
15 August: VJ Day, WW2 - 80th anniversary (UK)
15 August: Oscar Peterson - 100th birthday anniversary
21 August: Jean-Baptiste Greuze - 300th birthday anniversary
23 August: Ernst Krenek - 125th birthday anniversary
25 August: Friedrich Nietzsche - 125th anniversary of his death
25 August: Matthew Webb becomes the first swimmer to cross the English Channel unaided - 150th anniversary
30 August: Antony Gormley - 75th birthday
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September 2025
2 September: VJ Day (US), WW2 - 80th anniversary
3 September: Malcolm Campbell breaks land speed record - 90th anniversary
6 September: Andrea Camilleri - 100th birthday anniversary
7 September: Father's Day (Australia and NZ)
7 September: The Blitz began - 85th anniversary
8 September: Peter Sellers - 100th birthday anniversary
13 September: Cesare Borgia - 550th birthday anniversary
16 September: B. B. King - 100th birthday anniversary
21 September: Bill Murray - 75th birthday
22 September: Rosh Hashanah begins
26 September: Bryan Ferry - 80th birthday
27 September: Stockton and Darlington railway opens - 200th anniversary
30 September: James Dean - 70th anniversary of his death
30 September: Decimus Burton - 225th birthday anniversary
October 2025
3 October: Gore Vidal - 100th birthday anniversary
3 October: Reunification of Germany - 35th anniversary
7 October: Rosalba Carriera - 350th birthday anniversary
10 October: Paul Kruger - 200th birthday anniversary
11 October: Dorothea Lange, photographer - 60th anniversary of her death
13 October: Margaret Thatcher - 100th birthday anniversary
13 October: Charles Frederick Worth - 200th birthday anniversary
15 October: Theodor Hosemann - 150th anniversary of his death
16 October: Signing of the Locarno Agreements - 100th anniversary
20 October: Georg Pahl, photographer - 125th birthday anniversary
20 October: Diwali
22 October: Robert Rauschenberg - 100th birthday anniversary
23 October: Pelé - 85th birthday anniversary
23 October: Al Jolson - 75th anniversary of his death
24 October: United Nations was founded - 80th anniversary
25 October: Johann Strauss II - 200th birthday anniversary
26 October: British Summer Time ends - clocks go back - up to here
31 October: Dame Zaha Hadid - 75th birthday anniversary
31 October: The Battle of Britain ends - 85th anniversary
31 October: Halloween
November 2025
1 November: All Saints' Day
4 November: Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin - 30th anniversary
4 November: Guido Reni - 450th birthday anniversary
5 November: Guy Fawkes Day
8 November: Alain Delon - 90th birthday anniversary
10 November: Richard Burton - 100th birthday anniversary
12 November: Neil Young - 80th birthday
13 November: Robert Louis Stevenson - 175th birthday anniversary
14 November: Aaron Copland - 125th birthday anniversary
16 November: Sofonisba Anguissola - 400th anniversary of her death
19 November: Anna Seghers -125th birthday anniversary
20 November: General Francisco Franco - 50th anniversary of his death
20 November: Nuremberg Trials begin - 80th anniversary
20th November: Paulus Potter - 400th birthday anniversary
21 November: Goldie Hawn - 80th birthday
29 November: Jean-Martin Charcot - 200th birthday anniversary
30 November: Ben Stiller - 60th birthday
30 November: Billy Idol - 70th birthday
30 November: Oscar Wilde - 125th anniversary of his death
30 November: William-Adolphe Bouguereau - 200th birthday anniversary
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