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
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
b. January 22, 1788 d. April 19, 1824