Find A Grave - Greece

Ritsos, Yannis b. May 1, 1909 d. November 11, 1990
Poet. One of modern Greece's most widely translated poets, he was inspired by Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky. Since 1931, he was close to the K.K.E. (the Communist Party of Greece). During Greek civil war he was sentenced to spend four years in detention in various camps. Between 1967 and 1971, the military dictatorship put him in detention again. (Bio by: Hikmet)
Monemvasia Cemetery, Mycenae, Regional unit of Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece
Saint Spiridon
Patron saint and local hero of the island of Corfu. On four occasions each year, his body is removed and paraded through the town.
Church of Saint Spiridon, Corfu, Regional unit of Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece
Plot: Inside a silver coffin behind the gold doors on the altar
Schliemann, Heinrich (Johann Ludwig) Julius b. January 6, 1822 d. December 26, 1890
Adventurer. Born to Protestant Minister, Ernst and his wife Luise Therese Sophie Schliemann in Neu Buckow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, he attended the prestigious Gymnasium at Neu Strelitz concentrating on a classical education. He left school by 1836, however, when his father was accused of embezzling church funds and was unable to pay for further school. He took employment as a grocer in Furstenburg. Despising the job, he left in 1842, and found employment in Prussia with the F.C. Quien...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Seferis, Giorgos b. March 13, 1900 d. September 20, 1971
Poet. He won the 1963 Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Greek to be so honored. His verse is characterized by a deep understanding of Greece's past and its relevance to the present and future, and he often drew inspiration from Homer and his homeland's Classical mythology. Among his books of poetry are "Turning Point" (1931), "The Cistern" (1932), "Mythistorema" (1935), "Logbook" (1940), "Thrush" (1947), and "Three Secret Poems" (1966). Seferis was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, and...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Timotheus of Miletus
Ancient Greek Musician, Poet. His innovations in Greek song and combative attitude made him the most notorious of the 5th Century "New Music" composers. Timotheus, who lived from 446 to 357 BC, was born in Miletus, Anatolia (in what is now Aydin Province, Turkey). A virtuoso kitharode (a singer-composer who accompanied himself on a kithara), he courted controversy from the start of his career by rejecting the dignified severity of classical Greek music. "I sing not the old songs, for my new...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Archontiko Necropolis, Pella, Regional unit of Pella, Central Macedonia, Greece
Venizelos, Sophocles b. 1894 d. 1964
Greek Prime Minister. Also known as Sophoklis Venizelos, he was the son of the prominent Greek leader Eleftherios Venizelos. He served as the Prime Minister of Greece from March 23, 1950 to April 15, 1950, and August 21, 1950 to November 1, 1951. He also served as a Member of the Liberal Party in 1920, Minister in several governments, and helped found the Center Union Party. A veteran of World war I, he also served as a high ranking Captain of the Artillery for the Greek Army. (Bio by: K)
Sophocles Venizelos Tomb, Akrotiri, Regional unit of Cyclades, South Aegean, Greece
Plot: His grave is located on a site overlooking Chania, Greece, on the Island of Crete
Vougiouklaki, Aliki b. July 20, 1934 d. July 23, 1996
Actress, Singer. She was a leading star of Greek movies, predominantly musicals, for close to 30 years. Raised in Athens, she began her theatre career while in school, and studied at the National Theatre of Greece. Initially working in commercials, she made her silver screen bow with the 1953 "Nikos Tsiforos", and was soon much in demand for films, stage, and television. Fluent in English and French, she was well acclaimed as Eliza Doolittle in a late 1950s production of Shaw's "Pygmalion"...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
White, Terence Hanbury 'T.H.' b. May 29, 1906 d. January 17, 1964
Author. Born in Bombay, India, his father was a District Superintendent of Police and his mother the daughter of a judge. After the birth of their only child, she refused her husband any further relations, and the marriage was to end in divorce. In later years, T.H. White was to blame his mother for his own alcoholism and homosexuality. Known usually as "Tim" because Timothy White's was a well-known chain of chemist's shops, he was taken to England in 1911. He was educated at Cheltenham and at...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Cause of death: Heart attack
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Zolotas, Xenophon Euthymiou b. March 26, 1904 d. June 10, 2004
Greek Prime Minister. He served as the Prime Minister of Greece from November 23, 1989 to April 11, 1990. Also a well-known economist, Zolotas attended the Univeristy of Athens in Athens, Greece, and later served as the Professor of Economics there from 1938 to 1968. He also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), in 1946, posts in the International Monetary Fund from 1946 to 1981, and as Governor of the Bank of...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece

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