September 2025: Events and Anniversaries Preview
1 September 2025
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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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