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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
Oldenburg II., George b. July 19, 1890 d. April 1, 1947
King of the Hellenes from 1922 to 1924, from 1935 to 1941 and from 1946 to 1947. When King Constantine I abdicated he had been succeeded by his eldest son, Crown Prince George. When King George II's reign began, he was 33 years old. The stress of the World war II had weakened King George II's health. Soon after taking the salute at the annual Independence Day Parade on 25 March, he became exhausted and died suddenly of a heart attack. Having no children, he was succeeded by his younger brother...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Tatoi Royal Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Oldenburg, Olga Constantinovna b. September 3, 1851 d. June 18, 1926
Queen of Greece. Wife of George I, King of the Hellenes and daughter of Constantine Nicholaevitch (son of Nicholas I Romanov of Russia). Born HIH Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna Romanova of Russia, she was acting head of state after her grandson Alexander I (1917-20) had died after a monkey bite, until her son Contantinos I returned to take over the throne a second time. (Bio by: Jelena)
Tatoi Royal Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Oldenburg I., Paul b. December 14, 1901 d. March 6, 1964
King of the Hellenes from 1947 to 1964. He succeeded his elder brother, George II, on 1 April, 1947. George II, who had no children, died of a sudden heart attack after a short illness. King Paul I had suffered many of the hardships undergone by the Greek royal family during the Second World War - with their exile in Egypt, South Africa and London, and their escape from German attacks on Crete. George II and Crown Prince Paul (with his wife, Crown Princess Frederica) had returned to Greece on...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Tatoi Royal Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Oldenburg, Sophia Dorothea Ulrica Alice b. June 14, 1870 d. January 13, 1932
Queen of Greece. Wife of Constantine I. Her father was Frederic III German Emperor and mother Princess Royal Victoria Mary daughter of Queen Victoria. Her three sons were Kings of Greece - George II, Alexander I and Paul I. She died in Frankfurt, Germany but in 1936 her remains were transferred to Greece and buried in Tatoi royal cemetery. (Bio by: Jelena)
Tatoi Royal Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Papandreou, Andreas b. February 5, 1919 d. June 23, 1996
First Socialist Prime Minister of Greece.
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Papandreou, George b. February 18, 1888 d. November 1, 1968
Greek Prime Minister. Papandreou served as the Prime Minister of Greece from April 26, 1944, to January 3, 1945, November 8, 1963, to December 30, 1963, and February 18, 1964, to July 15, 1965. Papandreou was the father of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. (Bio by: K)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
Paxinou, Katina b. December 17, 1900 d. February 22, 1973
Academy Award Winning Actress. Katina Paxinou was born in Piraeus, Greece. She first appeared on stage in 1928, in an Athens production of Bataille's "La femme nue." In the early 1930's she was one of the founding members of the Greek Royal Theater (which later was named Greek National Theater) and performed several major roles in Sophocles' "Electra," Ibsen's "Ghosts" etc. often co-starring with her husband, 'Alexis Minotis.' The outbreak of the Second World War found her in UK; she later...[Read More] (Bio by: Noni)
First Cemetery, Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica, Greece
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
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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