July 2023: Events and Anniversaries Preview
3 July 2023
Welcome to your akg-images July preview, full of content ideas for the coming months with albums of supporting images.
July's more light-hearted international observance days include Chess Day, Chocolate Day and Kissing Day. Nelson Mandela Day also takes place in July.
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July 2023
1 July: British Library was founded - 50 years
3 July: Wimbledon Tennis tournament begins
4 July: Independence Day USA
5 July: Founding of the NHS - 75th anniversary
8 July: Artemisia Gentileschi - 430th birthday anniversary
8 July: Sir Henry Raeburn - 200th anniversary of his death
8 July: Franz Xaver Winterhalter - 150th anniversary of his death
13 July: Hollywood sign is inaugurated; "HOLLYWOODLAND" - 100 years
14 July: Bastille Day
16 July: Sir Joshua Reynolds - 300th birthday anniversary
17 July: Romanov family are interred in St Catherine Chapel - 25th anniversary
26 July: Mick Jagger - 80th birthday
30 July: Otto von Bismarck - 125th anniversary of his death
30 July: Henry Moore - 125th birthday anniversary
31 July: Erich Heckel - 140th birthday anniversary
August 2023
2 August: Shimon Peres - 100th birthday anniversary
5 August: Karl Hagemeister - 90th anniversary of his death
10 August: Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida - 100th anniversary of his death
15 August: Construction begins on Cologne Cathedral - 775th anniversary
16 August: Madonna - 65th birthday
23 August: Battle of Kursk ends - 80th anniversary
26 August: Lee De Forest - 150th birthday anniversary
29 August: Richard Attenborough - 100th birthday anniversary
30 August: Charles Bronson - 20th anniversary of his death
30 August: Jacques Louis David - 275th birthday anniversary
September 2023
September: Panic of 1873 - 150 years
2 September: J.R.R. Tolkien - 50th anniversary of his death
4 September: Oskar Schlemmer - 135th birthday anniversary
12 September: Jesse Owens - 110th birthday anniversary
12 September: Ben Shahn - 125th birthday anniversary
13 September: Claudette Colbert - 120th birthday anniversary
19 September: Jeremy Irons - 75th birthday
20 September: Theodor Fontane - 125th anniversary of his death
23 September: Pablo Neruda - 50th anniversary of his death
23 September: Romy Schneider - 85th birthday anniversary
26 September: Olivia Newton-John - 75th birthday anniversary
28 September: Alexandre Cabanel - 200th birthday anniversary
29 September: Wystan Hugh Auden - 50th anniversary of his death
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October 2023
4 October: Charlton Heston - 100th birthday anniversary
5 October: Crimean War began - 170th anniversary
10 October: Edith Piaf - 60th anniversary of her death
11 October: Jean Cocteau - 60th anniversary of his death
16 October: The Walt Disney Company is founded - 100th anniversary
16 October: Luca Signorelli - 500th anniversary of his death
19 October: Camille Claudel - 80th anniversary of her death
19 October: Sir Godfrey Kneller - 300th anniversary of his death
20 October: Sydney Opera House was founded - 50th anniversary
22 October: Catherine Deneuve - 80th birthday
24 October: Ernst Barlach - 85th anniversary of his death
27 October: Roy Lichtenstein - 100th birthday anniversary
29 October: Turkey becomes a republic - 100th anniversary. See also Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
30 October: Orson Welles's radio broadcast of H.G Wells's War of the Worlds - 85th anniversary
31 October: River Phoenix - 30th anniversary of his death
31 October: Federico Fellini - 30th anniversary of his death
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