Aris Velouchiotis

Athanasios Klaras, better known by the nom de guerre Aris Velouchiotis, was a Greek journalist, politician, member of the Communist Party of Greece, the most prominent leader and chief instigator of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the military branch of the National Liberation Front (EAM), which was the major resistance organization in occupied Greece from 1942 to 1945.

27 August 1905

Born on the same birth day (27 August): Ayame Goriki • Aygül Özkan • Cesar Millan • Chuck Girard • Denis G. Lillie • G. W. Bailey • Gerhard Berger • Jeanette Winterson • Katharine McCormick • Michael Mason (cricketer) • Neil Murray (British musician) • Norah Lofts • Péter Boross • Rajesh Thakker

Born in the same month (August 1905): Abeid Karume • André Jolivet • Arndt Pekurinen • Arthur Crudup • Bipin Gupta • Constant Lambert • Dhyan Chand • Enoch Light • Era Bell Thompson • Ernst Jaakson • Franz König • Helen Sawyer Hogg • Jean Gebser • Leo Genn • Robert Bacher • Sanford Meisner • Siaka Stevens