Find A Grave - Greece

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
Brooke, Rupert Chawner b. August 3, 1887 d. April 23, 1915
English Poet. He became one of the most famous poets of the first World War, due to the success of his poem "The Soldier." His recognition as a poet occured in 1911 when his work was published in two volumes: Georgian Poetry and his own book of poetry Poems 1911. He fell in love with actress Cathleen Nesbitt, but the relationship was brief. He died of blood poisoning on a French hospital ship moored in the bay of the Greek island of Skyros, shortly before embarking for the shores of Gallipoli. (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Skyros Island, Skyros, Regional unit of Euboea, Central Greece, Greece
Plot: Buried in an olive grove
Byron, Lord b. January 22, 1788 d. April 19, 1824
Poet. Born in 1788, Byron is the most famous and controversial of his contemporaries. He was always a study in contrasts, a melancholy satirist, an aristocratic champion of the common man, handsome and adored but obsessed with a small personal deformity. He fled England to escape scandal and a failed marriage and died of fever in 1824. His natural gift for poetry was the only consistency in his troubled life. Yet even during his own lifetime, his personal life overshadowed his work. (Bio by: Dario Pejic)
Ayios Georgios, Mycenae, Regional unit of Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece
Chatwin, Bruce b. May 13, 1940 d. January 18, 1989
Author. Charles Bruce Chatwin, who seldom used his first name, was born in Sheffield in Yorkshire, although his parents came from Birmingham and he spent much of his youth in that city. His father was a solicitor who, at the time of his children's birth (another son, Hugh, was born in 1944) was serving abroad in the Royal Navy. Bruce Chatwin was educated at Marlborough College and was expected to go on to Oxford. Instead, he found a job at Sotheby's Auctioneers, beginning as a porter but soon...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Cause of death: AIDS
Agios Nikolaos, Chora, Kardamili, Regional unit of Messenia, Peloponnese, 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
Connors, John b. October, 1830 d. January 29, 1857
Crimean War Victoria Cross Recipient.
British Cemetery, Corfu, Regional unit of Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece
Cynegeirus
Ancient Greek Military Figure. The brother of the playwright Aeschylus, he was a hero of the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) and died in action. Cynegeirus was born in Eleusis, Attica, Greece. In the Summer of 490 BC, when word reached Athens that a massive Persian force had landed at the bay near Marathon, he and Aeschylus joined the combined Athenian and the Plataean armies to meet the threat. Although the Greek hoplites...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Marathon Battlefield Memorial, Marathon, Regional unit of East Attica, 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
Doiran Memorial
The Doiran Memorial is situated near Doiran Military Cemetery on what was, during World War I, called Colonial Hill, approximately 2 kilometres from the village of Doiran in the north of Greece close to the Yugoslav frontier near the south-east shore of Lake Doiran.
Doiran Memorial, Doirani, Regional unit of Kilkis, Central Macedonia, 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
Kazantzakis, Nikos b. February 18, 1883 d. October 26, 1957
Writer. He was born in Candia (now Heraklion, Crete). He is considered one of the most importants greek writers of all times. He is best remembered for his book Life and Time of Alexis Zorbas (Zorba the Greek). He also wrote The Last Temptation, Christ Recrucified, Askitikis, Sodom and Gomorrha, Freedom and Death, God's Pauper, Report to Greco and Travels, with the author's impressions of Spain, Italy, Sinai, Japan, England, Russia, Jerusalem and Cyprus. He died in Germany, and when his body...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Martinego Bastion, Heraklion, Regional unit of Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Kazantzidis, Stelios b. 1931 d. September 14, 2001
He was a legendary Greek folk singer whose career spanned more than a half century. His popularity crossed generations and his music reflected the joys, sorrows and battles of Greece. (Bio by: Ron Moody)
Cause of death: Cancer
Elefsina Cemetery, Elefsina, Regional unit of West Attica, 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

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