November 2025: Events and Anniversaries Preview
31 October 2025
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Welcome to your akg-images preview for November 2025. Scroll down to find content ideas for the coming months and curated albums of supporting images.
November brings us World Children's Day, World Jellyfish Day and World Hello Day. We'd like to reshare our entries to the public domain and our annual list of anniversaries and events for your 2026 planning.
Our featured source for the month is Rabatti & Domingie. The acclaimed Florentine photography duo that built an extraordinary visual legacy of great Italian artworks, particularly those of the Florentine Renaissance.
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Featured Story: Denise Bellon. A Wandering Gaze
The mahJ in Paris presents the first retrospective dedicated to Denise Bellon (1902–1999), bringing together nearly 300 photographs, objects, letters, and publications. A humanist photographer, pioneer of photojournalism and companion of the Surrealists, her body of work spans from the 1930s to the 1970s.
November 2025
1 November: All Saints' Day
4 November: Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin - 30th anniversary
4 November: Guido Reni, painter - 450th birthday anniversary
5 November: Guy Fawkes Day
8 November: Alain Delon, actor - 90th birthday anniversary
10 November: Richard Burton, actor - 100th birthday anniversary
11 November: Armistice Day / Remembrance Day
12 November: Neil Young, musician - 80th birthday
13 November: Robert Louis Stevenson, writer - 175th birthday anniversary
14 November: Aaron Copland, composer and conductor - 125th birthday anniversary
16 November: Sofonisba Anguissola, painter- 400th anniversary of her death
19 November: Anna Seghers, writer - 125th birthday anniversary
20 November: General Francisco Franco - 50th anniversary of his death
20 November: Nuremberg Trials begin - 80th anniversary
20th November: Paulus Potter, painter - 400th birthday anniversary
21 November: Goldie Hawn, actress - 80th birthday
27 November: Thanksgiving (USA)
29 November: Jean-Martin Charcot, pioneering neurologist - 200th birthday anniversary
30 November: Ben Stiller, actor - 60th birthday
30 November: Billy Idol, singer - 70th birthday
30 November: Oscar Wilde, writer - 125th anniversary of his death
30 November: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, painter- 200th birthday anniversary
December 2025
1 December: Bette Midler, entertainer- 80th birthday
2 December: Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil - 200th birthday anniversary
4 December: Hannah Arendt, philosopher and writer - 50th anniversary of her death
4 December: Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and writer - 150th birthday anniversary
6 December: St Nicholas' Day
7 December: Thornton Wilder, writer - 50th anniversary of his death
8 December: Sammy Davis Jr, entertainer - 100th birthday anniversary
10 December: Kenneth Branagh, actor - 65th birthday
15 December: Jan Vermeer, painter - 350th anniversary of his death
16 December: Jane Austen, writer- 250th birthday anniversary
21 December: Premier of "Battleship Potemkin" - 100th anniversary
21 December: Giovanni Boccaccio, writer and scholar - 650th anniversary of his death
25 December: Christmas Day
27 December: Max Beckmann, painter and printmaker- 75th anniversary of his death
27 December: Michel Piccoli, actor - 100th birthday anniversary
28 December: Hildegard Knef, entertainer and writer - 100th birthday anniversary
29 December: Felix Vallotton, painter- 100th anniversary of his death
29 December: Jacques-Louis David, painter- 200th anniversary of his death
30 December: Rudyard Kipling, writer - 160th birthday anniversary
31 December: New Year's Eve
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January 2026
1 January: Public Domain Day
1 January: New Year's Day
3 January: Wilhelm Pieck, politician - 150th birthday anniversary
7 January: Paul Cassirer, art dealer and publisher - 100th anniversary of death
9 January: Joan Baez, singer - 85th birthday
12 January: Agatha Christie, writer - 50th anniversary of death
12 January: Jack London, author - 150th birthday anniversary
15 January: Maria Schell, actress - 100th birthday anniversary
18 January: Prince Henry of Prussia - 300th birthday anniversary
19 January: Dolly Parton, singer and actress - 80th birthday
20 January: Patricia Neal, actress - 100th birthday anniversary
22 January: Queen Victoria - 125th anniversary of death
22 January: Edward VII is proclaimed king - 125th anniversary
24 January: Neil Diamond, singer and actor - 85th birthday
24 January: E.T.A. Hoffmann, writer, composer and artist - 250th birthday anniversary
24 January: Hadrian, Roman emperor - 1950th birthday anniversary
26 January: John Logie Baird transmits the first moving images on his Televisor - 100th anniversary
27 January: Giuseppe Verdi, composer - 125th anniversary of his death
27 January: John James Audubon, artist and ornithologist - 175th anniversary of death
30 January: Phil Collins, musician - 75th birthday
February 2026
1 February: Clark Gable, actor - 125th birthday anniversary
1 February: Mary Shelley, writer - 175th anniversary of her death
2 February: Gene Kelly, entertainer - 30th anniversary of his death
2 February: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, politician - 100th birthday anniversary
3 February: Hans-Jochen Vogel, politician - 100th birthday anniversary
3 February: Wilhelm Trübner, painter - 175th birthday anniversary
5 February: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, writer - 400th birthday anniversary
8 February: Paula Modersohn-Becker, painter - 150th birthday anniversary
11 February: Leslie Nielsen, actor - 100th birthday anniversary
12 February: Darwin Day
14 February: St Valentine's Day
16 February: John Schlesinger, director - 100th birthday anniversary
17 February: Shrove Tuesday
17 February – 18 March: Ramadan
18 February: Ash Wednesday
19 February: André Gide, writer - 75th anniversary of his death
21 February: Alan Rickman, actor - 80th birthday anniversary
28 February: Linus Pauling, chemist and peace activist - 125th birthday anniversary
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