September 2025: Events and Anniversaries Preview

Welcome to your akg-images preview for September 2025. Scroll down to find content ideas for the coming months and curated albums of supporting images. 

September brings seasonal change—autumn or spring, depending on your location—and a new school year begins.

Our featured source for the month is Godong: the photo agency of people and religions. Based in Paris, Godong was founded in 2003 by photographers Pascal Deloche and Philippe Lissac, and is renowned for its specialised coverage of world religions and NGO work in developing countries.

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Featured Story: Sicily's Puppet Opera: Opera dei Pupi. Recognised by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, with a history stretching back to the early 19th century, the puppet opera in Palermo, known as the 'Opera dei Pupi', is one of Sicily’s cultural treasures.


September 2025

1 September: Seiji Ozawa - 90th birthday anniversary

2 September: VJ Day (US), WW2 - 80th anniversary

3 September: Malcolm Campbell breaks land speed record - 90th anniversary

6 September: Andrea Camilleri - 100th birthday anniversary

7 September: Father's Day (Australia and NZ)

7 September: The Blitz began - 85th anniversary

8 September: Peter Sellers - 100th birthday anniversary

12 September: Lascaux cave paintings are discovered - 85th anniversary

13 September: Cesare Borgia - 550th birthday anniversary

16 September: B. B. King - 100th birthday anniversary

21 September: Bill Murray - 75th birthday

22 September: Rosh Hashanah begins

22 September: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis - 150th birthday anniversary

26 September: Bryan Ferry - 80th birthday

27 September: Stockton and Darlington railway opens - 200th anniversary

30 September: James Dean - 70th anniversary of his death

30 September: Decimus Burton - 225th birthday anniversary


October 2025

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

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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