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): Alex Lifeson • Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma • Ange Postecoglou • Aygül Özkan • Blake Adams • Carter Stanley • Charles Pozzi • Daniela Romo • Derek Warwick • Giorgio Mitrovich • Harrison Page • Jeanette Winterson • Luuk de Jong • Michael Holroyd • Tom Berryhill • Tom Ford • William Least Heat-Moon

Born in the same month (August 1905): Abeid Karume • Arthur Crudup • Constant Lambert • Cyril Walters • Dhyan Chand • Enoch Light • Era Bell Thompson • Ernst Jaakson • Faustina Kowalska • Franz König • Helen Sawyer Hogg • Jack Teagarden • Jean Gebser • Karl Amadeus Hartmann • Leo Genn • Mikio Naruse • Robert Bacher • Ruth Nelson (actress) • Sanford Meisner • Wassily Leontief