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The distinguished archaeologist and researcher Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, “the most important scholar of the Cycladic civilization,” has passed away at the age of 87. In Koufonisia, southern Aegean Sea, the Municipality reportedly decided to fly the  at half-mast for the next three days to honor the great scholar. The …

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Internationally acclaimed and widely translated Greek author Vassilis Vassilikos, a former MP and Ambassador of Greece to UNESCO, passed away at the age of 89 it was announced on Thursday. Vassilikos was one of Greece’s most prolific writers, who published more than 100 works of literature, including novels, plays and …

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Giorgos Grammatikakis, renowned Greek physicist, writer and former member of the European Parliament, passed away at the age of 84 on Wednesday morning. He was briefly hospitalized and receiving medical care in the intensive care unit of the University General Hospital of Iraklio in Crete due to respiratory failure. Grammatikakis …

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The grande dame of the Greek cinema, Mary Chronopoulou, passed away on Friday following an accident in her home. The popular actress was 90 years old. She suffered a serious hematoma when she fell off the stairs in her home in Paiania, East Attica, on October 2. She was hospitalized …

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Marianna Vardinogianni, an UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and active in many charities, passed away at the age of 80 in Athens on Monday. She had recently been hospitalized in a private hospital and her health condition had deteriorated to an extreme extent that she was on mechanical support, media report. Neither …

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Popular Greek singer Dakis died on Sunday at the age of 79 after a long battle with cancer. Dakis whose real name was Vrassidas Haralambidis was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1943. In 1963 he came to Greece and a year later he started singing in clubs. He spoke six …

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Legendary Greek porn star Kostas Gousgounis passed away at the age of 92. He died last Friday at an Athens hospital after suffering a heart attack a few days previously, media reported. His burial took place on Monday in Artemida, in eastern Attika. Gousgounis, who was born in Larissa on …

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Efstratia Mavrapidou, one of the famous three Grannies of Lesvos, passed away at the age of 96. The three grannies became a symbol of solidarity with refugees in 2015, when they offered to feed and comfort a refugee baby and give a break to the mother from Syria who fled …

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She bewitched with the flame in her eyes, her awesome expression and the song “Kaigomai – Kaigomai” in the film “Rebetiko.” Actress, singer and writer Sotiria Leonardou passed away on Saturday, following a rare illness that had her bed-ridden for several years. Leonardou was not a rebetiko singer but she …

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Popular Greek singer, song-writer, music composer, and illustrator Arleta passed away at the hospital of Evangelismos on Tuesday. She was 72. Unique presence with ballads, authentic voice, a creative personality. Her songs marked the Greek music scene for more than 50 years. Their is no Greek who did not sing …

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James Galanos, a fashion designer who spent decades dressing America’s social elite, died on Sunday at his home in West Hollywood, California.  He was 92. James Galanos was born September 20, 1924 in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the only son of Greek-born parents. His mother, Helen Gorgoliatos, and his father, Gregory …

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