Mimis Papaioannou, a legendary soccer star for AEK Athens and the club’s top scorer, died on Wednesday morning after struggling with health issues for years. He was 81.
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Veteran journalist and politician Giorgos Romeos died on Friday, aged 89.
George B. Dertilis, one of Greece’s leading contemporary historians, has died aged 84. Born in Athens in 1939, he was professor emeritus of the University of Athens, where he taught modern and contemporary history.
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou expressed “profound sadness” at the death of Moisis Elisaf, the mayor of the city of Ioannina, western Greece, who passed away on Friday after a battle with cancer at the age of 68.
Moisis Elisaf, mayor of the city of Ioannina, in northwestern Greece, and the first Greek-Jew to hold a mayoral post died on Friday after a brief battle with cancer. He was 68.
Leading Italian scholar of the Greek language Mario Vitti has died in Rome at the age of 96. Vitti was a researcher of modern Greek literature and professor emeritus of Greek literature at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy.
Nektarios Santorinios, the SYRIZA MP for the Dodecanese islands and a former deputy minister for shipping, has died. He was 50 years old.
New Democracy MP Manousos Voloudakis has died at the age of 56 after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Voloudakis, who was first elected as an MP for the conservative party in 2007, representing the constituency of Hania, Crete. He was re-elected in the 2012 and 2019 elections. Born in Athens in 1966, he graduated from […]
He was an excellent character: kind, modest, fair, without arrogance, steadfast to his ideas and ideals. He loved his work, was passionate about the National Library of Greece (NLG) and devoted his life to its service,” Stavros Zoumboulakis, president of the organization’s Supervisory Council, says of Filippos Tsimpoglou. Tsimpoglou was director general […]
Dr Filippos Tsimpoglou, director general of the National Library of Greece (NLG), died on Thursday after a brief illness, the organization announced. He was 67 years old.
Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, who won an Olympic gold medal before becoming entangled in his country’s volatile politics in the 1960s as king and spent decades in exile, has died. He was 82.
Alex Yannis, who chronicled Pelé‘s career and the rise of soccer interest in the United States during three decades with The New York Times, has died. He was 84.
One of Greece’s last surviving heroes of World War II, fighter pilot Konstantinos Chatzilakos, has died at the age of 102, the Association of Retired Air Force Officers announced on Tuesday.
George Lois, the hard-selling, charismatic advertising man and designer who fashioned some of the most daring magazine images of the 1960s and popularized such catchphrases and brand names as “I Want My MTV” and “Lean Cuisine,” has died. He was 91.
Chrysostomos II, the leader of Cyprus’ Orthodox Church, was laid to rest Saturday with a ceremony that reflected centuries of ecclesiastical tradition, eulogized as his church’s greatest reformer and an outspoken fighter for his people.
Greek seismologist Vassilis Papazachos died on Thursday morning at the age of 92, state-run broadcaster ERT reported.
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