Georgios Papadopoulos

Georgios Papadopoulos was a Greek military officer and dictator who led a coup d'etat in Greece in 1967 and became the country's Prime Minister from 1967 to 1973. He also was the President of Greece under the junta in 1973, following a referendum. However, after the effective suppression of the Athens Polytechnic uprising, he was, in turn, overthrown by hardliner Dimitrios Ioannidis, in a string of events that would culminate to the fall of the regime in 1974. His and the dictatorship's legacy, as well as its methods he constructed and effects on Greek economy and society as a whole, are still fiercely debated.

5 May 1919

Born on the same birth day (5 May): Adam Hughes • Adele • Aryna Sabalenka • Chief Bender • Collie Smith • Duane Carter • Ed Lee • Eddie Linden • James Cracknell • Jim Kelly (martial artist) • John Rhys-Davies • Juan Manuel • Kingsley Fairbridge • Kurt Loder • Marg Downey • Mervyn S. Bennion • Shoko Nakagawa • Victor Garland • Viktor Hartmann • Yossi Benayoun

Born in the same month (May 1919): Antonio Aguilar • Betty Garrett • Dan O'Herlihy • Ella Grasso • George Gobel • George P. Mitchell • Gustav Naan • Jacques Genest • Lex Barker • Liberace • Manna Dey • Margot Fonteyn • Mitja Ribičič • Mohammed Karim Lamrani • Ramon Margalef • René Barrientos • Robert Bernstein (comics) • Robie Macauley • Rubén González (pianist)