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): C. S. Forester • Charles G. Dawes • Ed Gein • Edward Patten • Frank Yablans • Gerhard Berger • James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead • Jimmy Pop • Kevin Huerter • Nat Lofthouse • Pee Wee Butts • Roelof Kruisinga • Sarah Hecken • Sgt. Slaughter • Tom Berryhill

Born in the same month (August 1905): Abeid Karume • André Jolivet • Bipin Gupta • Constant Lambert • Cyril Walters • Dhyan Chand • Era Bell Thompson • Ernst Jaakson • Helen Sawyer Hogg • Jean Gebser • Mikio Naruse • Robert Bacher • Wassily Leontief