September 2024: Events and Anniversaries Preview

Welcome to your akg-images September preview, brimming with content ideas for the coming months and curated albums of supporting images. 

September is the month associated with going back to school, the harvest, and the change of seasons - autumn or spring. Experienced foragers will be excited for mushroom season.

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Frida Kahlo enters the public domain. AKG107993 © akg-images250th birthday anniversary of J. M. W. Turner. AKG8243771 © akg-imagesEvents leading to the end of the Second World War. AKG938338 © akg-images / Science Photo Library

Features: akg-images brings 2025 into focus with our Looking Further Ahead list of events and anniversaries, a timeline of events leading to the End Of World War Two, and the essential list of Artists Entering the Public Domain.

Brigitte Bardot. AKG4701873 © Philippe Ledru / akg-imagesAnton Bruckner. AKG4454003 © akg-images / Fototeca Gilardi

Marcello Mastroianni. AKG1632067 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Giorgio LottiCaspar David Friedrich. AKG40300 © akg-images

September 2024

1 September: Invasion of Poland, sparking WWII - 85th anniversary

1 September: Lily Tomlin - 85th birthday

1 September: Richard Arlen - 125th birthday anniversary

4 September: Anton Bruckner - 200th birthday anniversary

5 September: Caspar David Friedrich - 250th birthday anniversary

8 September: Ludovico Ariosto - 550th birthday anniversary

10 September: Thomas Sydenham - 400th birthday anniversary

13 September: Arnold Schoenberg - 150th birthday anniversary

16 September: Lauren Bacall - 100th birthday anniversary

17 September: WWII Operation Market Garden - 80th anniversary

19 September: Twiggy - 75th birthday

20 September: Sophia Loren - 90th birthday

26 September: Ivan Pavlov - 175th birthday anniversary

28 September: Brigitte Bardot - 90th birthday

28 September: Marcello Mastroianni - 100th birthday anniversary

30 September: Truman Capote - 100th birthday anniversary

Nicolas Roerich. AKG1982315 © akg-imagesOtto Müller. AKG42915 © akg-images

Marie Laforêt. AKG1730830 © akg-images / Mondadori PortfolioLouis Lumiere. AKG209301 © akg-images / Walter Limot

October 2024

1 October: Jimmy Carter - 100th birthday

1 October: People's Republic of China is established - 75th anniversary

2 -4 October: Rosh Hashanah

5 October: Marie Laforêt - 85th birthday anniversary

5 October: Louis Lumière - 160th birthday anniversary

6 October: WWII Battle of Hürtgen Forest - 80th anniversary

9 October: Nicholas Roerich - 150th birthday anniversary

14 October: Thanksgiving (Canada)

15 October: Friedrich Nietzsche - 180th birthday anniversary

16 October: Otto Müller - 150th birthday anniversary

16 October: Oscar Wilde - 170th birthday anniversary

17 October: Frederic Chopin - 175th anniversary of death

23 October: WWII Battle of Leyte Gulf - 80th anniversary

25 October: WWII First Kamikaze attack - 80th anniversary

27 October: ​ British Summer Time ends UK

31 October: Indira Gandhi - 40th anniversary of her assassination

31 October: Halloween

31 October: Diwali

Fall of the Berlin Wall. AKG668165 © akg-images / PansegrauHedy Lamarr. AKG1736195 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio

Winston Churchill. AKG1569860 © akg-imagesDay of the Dead. AKG9472308 © akg-images / picture alliance / Jan Sochor

November 2024

1 November: Algerian War of Independence begins - 70th anniversary

1 and 2 November: All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day

2 November: Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin - 325th birthday anniversary

3 November: Henri Matisse - 70th anniversary of his death

4 November: Iranian Hostage Crisis begins - 45th anniversary

5 November: Guy Fawkes Day (UK)

9 November: Fall of the Berlin Wall and Prezi ​ - 35th anniversary

9 November: Hedy Lamarr - 110th birthday anniversary

11 November: Armistice Day / Remembrance Day

11 - 22 November: COP29 Climate Conference

27 November: Chaim Weizmann - 150th birthday anniversary

28 November: Thanksgiving (USA)

29 November: Giacomo Puccini - 100th anniversary of his death

30 November: Winston Churchill - 150th birthday anniversary

30 November: Shirley Chisholm - 100th birthday anniversary

Julie Wolfthorn. AKG3020916 © akg-imagesNoël Coward. AKG2349976 © akg-images

Vasco da Gama. AKG20073 © akg-imagesPierre Puvis De Chavannes. AKG1336836 © akg-images / De Agostini Picture Library

December 2024

2 December: John Cobb - 125th birthday anniversary

7 December: Mario Soares - 100th birthday anniversary

9 December: Dame Judi Dench - 90th birthday

12 December: Karl Bryullov - 225th birthday anniversary

13 December: Wassily Kandinsky - 80th anniversary of his death

14 December: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - 200th birthday anniversary

14 December: George Washington - 225th anniversary of his death

16 December: Battle of the Bulge begins - 80th anniversary

16 December: Noël Coward - 125th birthday anniversary 

17 December: Domenico Cimarosa - 275th birthday anniversary

24 December: Vasco da Gama - 500th anniversary of his death

25 December: Christmas Day - contemporary or classic

25 December - 2 January: Hannukah

26 December: Julie Wolfthorn - 80th anniversary of her death

28 December: Léon Bakst - 100th anniversary of his death

31 December: New Year's Eve

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