October 2025: Events and Anniversaries Preview
1 October 2025
Welcome to your akg-images preview for October 2025. Scroll down to find content ideas for the coming months and curated albums of supporting images.
With a new year on the horizon, now is a good time to remind you of our annual lists of significant events and anniversaries. We have 2026 and 2027 available, as well as a useful list of artists entering the public domain in 2026.
Our featured source for the month is the Schuh Collection. Andrea Schuh’s photography transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. Working mostly in black and white, Schuh removes the distraction of colour to create striking and atmospheric compositions which invite the viewer to step inside and experience.
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Featured Story: Ossuaries and Charnel Houses. Far from being relics of the past, the relevance of ossuaries and charnel houses continues to the present. These spaces, once born out of necessity, are enduring and powerful reminders of how societies treated death not as something hidden away, but as a shared and visible part of life.
October 2025
1 October: Black History Month UK
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
13 October: Thanksgiving (Canada)
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: The 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
27 November: Thanksgiving (USA)
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
December 2025
1 December: Bette Midler - 80th birthday
2 December: Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil - 200th birthday anniversary
4 December: Hannah Arendt - 50th anniversary of her death
4 December: Rainer Maria Rilke - 150th birthday anniversary
6 December: St Nicholas' Day
7 December: Thornton Wilder - 50th anniversary of his death
8 December: Sammy Davis Jr - 100th birthday anniversary
10 December: Kenneth Branagh - 65th birthday
15 December: Johannes Vermeer - 350th anniversary of his death
16 December: Jane Austen - 250th birthday anniversary
21 December: Premier of "Battleship Potemkin" - 100th anniversary
21 December: Giovanni Boccaccio - 650th anniversary of his death
25 December: Christmas Day
27 December: Max Beckmann - 75th anniversary of his death
27 December: Michel Piccoli - 100th birthday anniversary
28 December: Hildegard Knef - 100th birthday anniversary
29 December: Felix Vallotton - 100th anniversary of his death
29 December: Jacques-Louis David - 200th anniversary of his death
30 December: Rudyard Kipling - 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: John James Audubon, artist and ornithologist - 175th anniversary of death
30 January: Phil Collins, musician - 75th birthday
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