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Here you will find current anniversaries of important personalities and events as well as our selection of anniversary highlights.
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Personalities & Events
Anniversaries 2021
Austrian writer and Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek celebrates her 75th birthday on Oct. 20. Also turning 75 are Susan Sarandon,
Charles Dance, Stephan Remmler and Stephen Rea. Singers Sting and Bob Geldof turn 70, and actor Matthias Brandt and cabaret artist Alfred Dorfer turn 60. Yves Montand, George Brassens and Hoimar von Ditfurth would have turned 100. Bavaria's last King Ludwig III died 100 years ago - Bavaria's constitution was adopted 75 years ago.
More October anniversaries in the overview.
Personalities & Events
Highlights 2021
The year 2021 is marked by numerous anniversaries: Charles Bronson and Yves Montand would have turned 100. Star director Steven Spielberg, Susan Sarandon and Jane Birkin celebrate their 75th birthdays. The director of the Volkstheater and the Oberammergau Passion Play Christian Stückl turns 60. 75 years ago, the Bavarian Constitution came into force. An overview of our anniversary highlights in 2021.
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Outstanding historical events
SZ Photo Specials
World War I and II, the Weimar Republic and National Socialism, the Protests of 1968 and not least the end of the German division, beginning with the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago - discover these and other collections of pictures from selected historical epochs and events.