Find A Grave - Athens

Aldredge, Theoni b. August 22, 1932 d. January 21, 2011
Award-Winning Costume Designer. Known for creating lavish stage and screen attire that required large budgets, she had a career of more than 40 years during which she captured three Tony Awards and an Oscar. Educated at the American School of Athens and at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago; having met Geraldine Page in Greece, she broke into Broadway in 1959 when she designed her outfits for Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth". Over the years she earned more than 30 credits on The Great...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Averoff, George b. 1815 d. 1899
Business Magnate, Philanthropist. Born in Metsovo in the North of Greece, near to the border with Albania. When he was a young man, he moved to Alexandria in Egypt. There he made his fortune in trade, and founded the High School and the Girls' Institute. Back in Greece, he was the founder of the Military Academy, the Juvenile Prisons, and the Athens Polytechnic. In honour of his birthplace, the official name of the latter is the National Metsovian Polytechnic. In 1896, when Baron Pierre de...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Church, Richard b. 1784 d. March 30, 1873
The inscription, in English on one side and in Greek on the reverse, reads : "Richard Church, General, who, having given himself and all that he had to rescue a Christian race from oppression and to make Greece a nation, lived for her service and died amongst her people, rests here in peace and faith". Richard Church was born in Cork in Ireland, the second son of a Quaker merchant. He ran away from school to join the Army, where he became an ensign in the 13th. Somersetshire Light Infantry and...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Dassin, Jules b. December 18, 1911 d. March 31, 2008
Motion Picture Director, Screenwriter. He earned an Academy Award-nomination for the 1960 film "Never on Sunday" and received a Tony Award-nomination with the 1967 Broadway production "Ilya, Darling". Born in Middletown, Connecticut, he later moved to New York and began acting in the Yiddish Theatre. After working in radio, Dassin made his directing debut on Broadway with the 1940 production "Medicine Show" and would later have credits with, "Magdalena", "Two's Company" and "Isle of Children"...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Furtwangler, Adolf b. June 30, 1853 d. October 10, 1907
Author, Scholar of Archaeology. The inscription translates as: "The Athenian Archaeological Society." Presumably, they were the ones who paid for the memorial. Adolf Furtwangler was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, in the Land of Baden, in the South-West of Germany. In 1878, he took part in the excavations at Olympia. From 1880 to 1894, he served as the director of the Berlin Museum of Archaeology and, during this period, he wrote the book "Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture." In 1894, he became the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Hunger, Memorial To Those Who Died of [memorial]
The inscription translates as : "The Mother of the Occupation, 1941. The work of K. Ealsama, placed at the expense of El(eftherios) D. Moyzakh." One hundred thousand Greeks, 40,000 of whom were in Athens, starved to death during the Winter of 1940-1941. (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Jennings, Humphrey b. August 19, 1907 d. September 24, 1950
The epitaph, "Death is the veil that those who live call life. They sleep and it is lifted," is taken from "Prometheus Unbound", by P.B. Shelley. Humphrey Jennings was born in Walberswick, in Suffolk, on the East coast of England. His father was an architect, his mother was a painter. He was educated at the Perse School in Cambridge and at Pembroke College in the University there, where he obtained a starred First in English. In 1929, he married Cicely Cooper and began (but did not complete)...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Kanaris, Constantine b. 1793 d. September 2, 1877
Greek Prime Minister. Kanaris served as the Prime Minister of Greece six times including, from March 11, 1844, to April 11, 1844, October 27, 1848, to December 24, 1849, May 28, 1854, to July 29, 1854, March 17, 1864, to April 28, 1864, August 7, 1864, to February 9, 1865, and June 7, 1877, until his death on September 2, 1877. Also a noted admiral and freedom fighter, Kanaris served in the Greek War of Independence from 1821 to 1829, and was instrumental in overthrowing King Otto of Greece in...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Karadjordjevic, Alexandra b. March 25, 1921 d. January 30, 1993
Princess of Greece and Danmark. Posthumously born child of king Alexander I. In 1944 she married Peter II Karadjordjevic last king of Yugoslavia. Her son Prince Alexander is crown prince of Yugoslavia. (Bio by: Jelena)
Tatoi Royal Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Karamanlis, Constantine b. March 8, 1907 d. April 23, 1998
Greek Prime Minister. He served four terms as the Prime Minister of Greece from October 6, 1955, to March 5, 1958, May 17, 1958, to September 20, 1961, November 4, 1961, to June 17, 1963, and from July 17, 1974, to May 10, 1980. He died in April 1998 at the age of 91. (Bio by: K)
Karamanlis Foundation, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Plot: Courtyard
Kavadia, Tasso b. January 10, 1921 d. December 18, 2010
Actress. A specialist in villainess roles, she was a regular in Greek films, television, and theatre for over half a century. Born Anastasia Kavadia in the city of Patras, she studied piano, acting, and writing in Athens and Paris before making her silver screen bow as Liza in 1954's "Windfall in Athens". Though she had a parallel career as a radio and newspaper journalist from the mid 1950s to the late 1960s, she appeared steadily in about two dozen movies until the early 2000s, among the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Koumoundouros, Alexandros b. 1817 d. February 26, 1883
Greek Prime Minister. Koumoundouros served as the Prime Minister of Greece from March 14, 1865, to November 1, 1865, November 18, 1865, to November 25, 1865, December 30, 1866, to January 1, 1868, December 15, 1870, to November 9, 1871, October 27, 1875, to December 8, 1876, December 13, 1876, to March 10, 1877, June 1, 1877, to June 7, 1877, September 14, 1877, to November 2, 1878, November 2, 1878, to November 7, 1878, November 7, 1878, to March 22, 1880, and October 25, 1880, to March 15...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Kourkoulos, Nikos b. December 5, 1934 d. January 30, 2007
Actor. Born in Athens, Greece, he appeared mainly in international films and television beginning in the late 1950s. After making his movie debut in the 1957 film "The Final Lie", his other credits include "Lola", (1964), "Blood on the Land", (1964), "Lady, Die", (1964), "Assignment Skybolt", (1968), "Roma come Chicago", (1968), "Oratotis miden", (1970), "An Enemy of the Society", (1972) and "The Trial of the Judges", (1974). Kourkoulos received a Tony Award Nomination for his performance in...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Zografou Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Mercouri, Melina b. October 18, 1925 d. March 6, 1994
Actress, Political Figure. Perhaps her country's leading performer over a generation, she used her entertainment fame for entre into the political arena. Born Maria Amalia Mercouri to wealth and high position, she attended Athens' National Theatre Drama School and made her 1945 professional debut in the title lead of Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra". Over the next few years she refined her art at her city's principal venues and in 1949 had her first major hit as the tragic Blanche...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Michalakopoulos, Andreas b. 1876 d. 1938
Statesman. A native of Patras, Greece, he served as the Prime Minister of Greece from 1924 to 1925. He also served as Minister of Defense in 1918, Minister of Agriculture from 1917 to 1918, in 1920, Minister of Economy from 1912 to 1916, and as Foreign Minister from 1928 to 1933. Known as a high level member of the "Komma Fileleftheron" or Liberal Party, he was a close associate of Eleftherios Venizelos. With Venizelos he helped with the treaties of Sevres and Lausanne, and the Greek-Turkish...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Oldenburg I., Alexander b. August 1, 1893 d. October 25, 1920
King of the Hellenes from 1917 to 1920. He was the second son of King Constantine I and Queen Sophie. On 27 September 1920., King Alexander, after repairing the engine of his car at Tatoi, was involved in a bizarre accident. His dog, Fritz, was involved in a fight with 2 pet monkeys (owned by the Manager of the estate). The King tried to separate them and was bitten on the leg by one of the monkeys. The wound turned septic and, after 4 weeks and 7 operations, the young King Alexander I died. He...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Tatoi Royal Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Oldenburg, Aspasia b. September 4, 1896 d. August 7, 1972
Princess. Wife of King Alexander I of Greece. Daughter of Colonel Petros Manos and Maria Argyropoulos. Aspasia was created a Princess of Greece by Royal Decree on 10 September 1922. (Bio by: Jelena)
Tatoi Royal Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Oldenburg I., Constantine b. August 2, 1868 d. January 11, 1923
King of the Hellenes from 1913 to 1917 and from 1920 to 1922. The eldest son of King George I and Queen Olga. He was named after his mother's father, the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia. As Crown Prince, he had admired German military training. On 1 December 1916, an outbreak of violence involving French seamen and British marines (which resulted in the shelling of the Royal Palace in Athens) completed the breach between King Constantine and the Entente Powers. Greek ports were blockaded. The...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Tatoi Royal Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Oldenburg, Fredericka b. April 18, 1917 d. February 6, 1981
Queen of Greece. Full name, Fredericka Louise Thyra Victoria Margaret Sophia Olga Cecily Guelph Oldenburg. Wife of Paul I, King of the Hellenes. Her mother was daughter of German Emperor Wilhem II and father Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg.Mother of Queen Sophia of Spain and King Constantine II last King of Greece. She died from anesthesia poisoning. (Bio by: Jelena)
Tatoi Royal Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Oldenburg I., George Christian William Ferdinand Adolphus b. December 24, 1845 d. March 18, 1913
King of the Hellenes from 1863 to 1913. He was the second son of King Christian IX of Denmark.He was invited to become King of the Hellenes in 1863, after the Greek National Assembly voted unanimously for the restoration of Monarchy. The agreement that King George I successfully negotiated was that Greece would acquire the Ionian Islands (Corfu, Kephalonia, Zakynthos, Ithaca), and Kythira, which had been British possessions for the previous 48 years. He would remain on the throne for almost 50...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Tatoi Royal Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece

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