September 2023: Events and Anniversaries Preview

Welcome to your akg-images September preview, full of content ideas for the remainder of the year, with albums of supporting images. 

Rosh Hashanah: Jewish New Year is celebrated in September. Pogonophiles can prepare themselves for World Beard Day, and a change of season arrives with autumn or spring, depending on where you are in the world.

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Featured Story: Artists lost in the Great War

AKG287411 August Macke © akg-images

AKG1447253 Umberto Boccioni © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Sergio AnelliAKG326156 Portrait of Franz Marc by August Macke © akg-images

AKG2086217 Alexandre Cabanel © akg-imagesAKG1410497 Romy Schneider © akg-images / Interfoto

AKG9401343 J.R.R. Tolkein © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio/Archivio GBBAKG3969398 Jesse Owens © akg-images / TT News Agency / SVT

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

AKG2541157 Orson Welles © akg-images / Album / Paramount PicturesAKG858716 Camille Claudel © akg-images

AKG1494743 Sydney Opera House © akg-images / VIEW Pictures / Richard GloverAKG484865 River Phoenix © akg-images / Album / Paramount Pictures

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

23 November: Thanksgiving USA

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

31 October: Halloween

AKG954666 Miriam Makeba © akg-images / african.picturesAKG1078050 Kristallnacht / November Pogroms © akg-images / WHA / World History Archive

AKG9623844 King Charles III © akg-images / ullstein bildAKG75383 Tehran Conference © akg-images

November 2023

5 November: Guy Fawkes Day UK

5 November: Vivian Leigh - 110th birthday anniversary

7 November: Albert Camus - 110th birthday anniversary

8 November: Beer Hall Putsch/Munich Putsch - 100th anniversary

9 November: Kristallnacht / November Pogroms - 85th anniversary

10 November: Miriam Makeba - 15th anniversary of her death

11 November: Paul Signac - 160th birthday anniversary

11 November: Remembrance Day

14 November: King Charles III - 75th birthday

17 November: Lauren Hutton - 80th birthday

21 November: René Magritte - 125th birthday anniversary

22 November: John Fitzgerald Kennedy - 60th anniversary of his death

23 November: Thanksgiving USA

28 November: Tehran conference - 80th anniversary

30 November - 12 December: COP28 climate conference

AKG162818 Maria Callas ©akg-images / Archivio Cameraphoto EpocheAKG77247 Boston Tea Party © akg-images

AKG286797 Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen © akg-imagesAKG4372985 Donna Summer © akg-images / Thomas Bartilla

December 2023

2 December: Maria Callas - 100th birthday anniversary

5 December: Nelson Mandela - 10th anniversary of his death

5 December: Prohibition ends in the US - 90th anniversary

7 December: Hanukkah begins

7 December: Gian Lorenzo Bernini - 425th birthday anniversary

8 December: Jim Morrison - 80th birthday anniversary

14 December: Théophile Alexandre Steinlen - 100th anniversary of his death

16 December: Boston Tea Party - 250th anniversary

17 December: Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful flight - 120th anniversary

20 December: Irene Dunn - 125th birthday anniversary

25 December: Christmas Day - contemporary or classic style

31 December: Donna Summer - 75th birthday anniversary

31 December: New Year's Eve

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