Φιλμογραφία

• Η φωνή της καρδιάς (1942) [Ζιζή]
• Χαμένοι άγγελοι (1948) [Έλλη]
• Έλα στο θείο... (1950) [Ρούλα Γιορέ]
• Εκείνες που δεν πρέπει ν'αγαπούν (1951) [Καίτη Φλωρά]
• Ο πύργος των ιπποτών (1952) [Μαρίνα Δελαρόσσα]
• Το σωφεράκι (1953) [Λέλα]
• Άνεμος του μίσους (1954)
• Γλέντι - λεφτά κι αγάπη (1955) [Μυρτώ]
• Το οργανάκι του Αττίκ (1955) [Μέλπω]
• Η καφετζού (1956) [Καίτη Γιαβάση-Τσαρδή]
• Θυσία της μάνας (1956) [Αλίκη Τεγά - Δημητρίου]
• Ο γυναικάς (1957) [Άλκη Μποράνη]
• Ο πειρασμός (1957)
• Ραντεβού με τον έρωτα (1957) [Λιλή]
• Της νύχτας τα καμώματα (1957) [Ρούλα Χατζηθεοδωρή]
• 4 νύφες 1 γαμπρός (1958) [Φούλη Προκόπη]
• Κάθ'εμπόδιο για καλό (1958) [Σμαρή (Σμαράγδα)]
• Ο λεφτάς (1958) [Μαίρη Ντέρμα]
• Φτώχεια και αριστοκρατία / Στουρνάρα 288 (1959) [Ντουντού Βράιλα]
• Νύχτες στο Μιραμάρε (1960) [Ασράφ / Λένα]
• Φτωχαδάκια και λεφτάδες (1961) [Μίλη Ντεκρίση]
• Ο Θόδωρος και το δίκανο (1962) [Χριστίνα]
• Μόνο για σένα (1965) [Στέλλα Περωτή]

• 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.
• 1126 – Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
• 1576 – Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.
• 1618 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
• 1655 – John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
• 1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark–Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
• 1702 – Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
• 1722 – The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
• 1736 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
• 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
• 1777 – Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
• 1782 – Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes.
• 1801 – War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
• 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
• 1844 – King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
• 1868 – Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.
• 1910 – French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
• 1914 – First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.
• 1916 – World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
• 1917 – International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).
• 1917 – The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
• 1920 – The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
• 1921 – Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
• 1924 – A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
• 1936 – Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces complete the Dutch East Indies campaign.
• 1947 – Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
• 1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason.
• 1949 – President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
• 1957 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
• 1957 – The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
• 1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations.
• 1963 – The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
• 1965 – Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
• 1966 – A bomb planted by Irish Republican Army militants destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
• 1971 – The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision.
• 1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
• 1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
• 1979 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
• 1983 – While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
• 1985 – A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
• 2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
• 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The aircraft is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia with the loss of all 239 people aboard.

Births[edit]

• 1286 – John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)
• 1293 – Beatrice of Castile (d. 1359)
• 1495 – John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (d. 1550)
• 1514 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
• 1566 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian lute player and composer (d. 1613)
• 1659 – Isaac de Beausobre, French pastor (d. 1738)
• 1617 – Tito Livio Burattini, Italian architect, historian, and engineer (d. 1681)
• 1702 – Anne Bonny, Irish pirate (d. 1782)
• 1712 – John Fothergill, English physician and botanist (d. 1780)
• 1714 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (d. 1788)
• 1726 – Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, English admiral and politician, Treasurer of the Navy (d. 1799)
• 1746 – André Michaux, French botanist and explorer (d. 1802)
• 1748 – William V, Prince of Orange (d. 1806)
• 1761 – Jan Potocki Polish ethnologist, historian, and linguist (d. 1815)
• 1783 – Hannah Van Buren, American wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819)
• 1799 – Simon Cameron, American journalist and politician, 26th United States Secretary of War (d. 1889)
• 1804 – Alvan Clark, American astronomer and optician (d. 1887)
• 1814 – Ede Szigligeti, Romanian-Hungarian playwright and author (d. 1878)
• 1822 – Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish inventor and businessman, invented the Kerosene lamp (d. 1882)
• 1825 – Jules Barbier, French poet and playwright (d. 1901)
• 1826 – Johann Köler, Estonian painter and academic (d. 1899)
• 1827 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (d. 1875)
• 1830 – João de Deus, Portuguese poet and educator (d. 1896)
• 1839 – Josephine Cochrane, American inventor (d. 1913)
• 1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist (d. 1935)
• 1848 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson, American engineer and businessman, developed the roller coaster (d. 1917)
• 1856 – Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929)
• 1856 – Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic (d. 1937)
• 1859 – Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English banker and author (d. 1932)
• 1865 – Frederic Goudy, American type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1886 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
• 1892 – Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet and author (d. 1979)
• 1896 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian journalist and politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (d. 1975)
• 1897 – Margot Bryant, English actress (d. 1988)
• 1897 – Damerla Rama Rao, Indian painter (d. 1925)
• 1899 – Elmer Keith, American gun designer and author (d. 1984)
• 1900 – Howard H. Aiken, American physicist and computer scientist, created the Harvard Mark I (d. 1973)
• 1902 – Louise Beavers, American actress and singer (d. 1962)
• 1902 – Jennings Randolph, American journalist and politician (d. 1998)
• 1907 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Greece (d. 1998)
• 1908 – Lucio and Simplicio Godina, Filipino conjoined twins (d. 1936)
• 1909 – Beatrice Shilling, English motorcycle racer and engineer (d. 1990)
• 1910 – Bernard Benjamin, English statistician and demographer (d. 2002)
• 1910 – Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist and composer (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Hüseyin Hilmi Işık, Turkish, Sunni Islamic scholar (d. 2001)
• 1912 – Preston Smith, American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
• 1912 – Meldrim Thomson, Jr., American publisher and politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (d. 2001)
• 1914 – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Belarusian-Russian physicist and astronomer (d. 1987)
• 1915 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1979)
• 1918 – Jacques Baratier, French director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Douglass Wallop, American author and playwright (d. 1985)
• 1921 – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
• 1921 – Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1922 – Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)
• 1922 – Carl Furillo, American baseball player (d. 1989)
• 1922 – Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and director (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Anthony Caro, English sculptor and illustrator (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Sean McClory, Irish-American actor and director (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Warren Bennis, American scholar, author, and academic (d. 2014)
• 1926 – Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director and screenwriter (d. 1984)
• 1926 – Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (d. 2001)
• 1927 – Dick Hyman, American pianist and composer
• 1927 – Stanisław Kania, Polish politician
• 1927 – Irene Tinker, American economist and academic
• 1929 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress and singer (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Bob Grim, American baseball player (d. 1996)
• 1930 – Douglas Hurd, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1931 – Neil Adcock, South African cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2013)
• 1931 – John McPhee, American essayist and writing instructor
• 1931 – Gerald Potterton, English-Canadian animator, director, and producer
• 1931 – Neil Postman, American author and critic (d. 2003)
• 1933 – Luca Ronconi, Italian actor and director (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Evelyn Ay Sempier, American model, Miss America 1954 (d. 2008)
• 1934 – Marv Breeding, American baseball player and scout (d. 2006)
• 1935 – George Coleman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
• 1936 – Sue Ane Langdon, American actress and singer
• 1936 – Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist and composer (d. 1982)
• 1937 – Richard Fariña, American singer-songwriter and author (d. 1966)
• 1937 – Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician, 3rd President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
• 1938 – Pete Dawkins, American football player, colonel, and politician
• 1938 – Hans Fogh, Danish-Canadian sailor (d. 2014)
• 1938 – George Innes, English actor
• 1938 – Juris Kalniņš, Latvian basketball player (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Bruno Pizzul, Italian footballer and journalist
• 1939 – Jim Bouton, American baseball player and journalist
• 1939 – Lynn Seymour, Canadian ballerina and choreographer
• 1939 – Lidiya Skoblikova, Russian speed skater and coach
• 1939 – Robert Tear, Welsh tenor and conductor (d. 2011)
• 1940 – Susan Clark, Canadian actress and producer
• 1940 – Jacques Doucet, Canadian sportscaster
• 1941 – Norman Stone, Scottish-English historian, author, and academic
• 1942 – Dick Allen, American baseball player and tenor
• 1942 – Palito Ortega, Argentinian singer, actor, and politician
• 1942 – Ann Packer, English sprinter, hurdler, and long jumper
• 1943 – Michael Grade, English businessman
• 1943 – Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and singer (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Dionysis Simopoulos, Greek physicist and astronomer
• 1944 – Buzz Hargrove, Canadian union leader
• 1944 – Sergey Nikitin, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 – Pepe Romero, Spanish guitarist and composer (The Romeros)
• 1945 – Bruce Broughton, American composer
• 1945 – Jim Chapman, American lawyer and politician
• 1945 – Micky Dolenz, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (The Monkees)
• 1945 – Anselm Kiefer, German painter and sculptor
• 1945 – Sylvia Wiegand, American mathematician and professor
• 1946 – Robert Jaworski, Filipino basketball player, coach, and politician
• 1946 – Randy Meisner, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Eagles and Poco)
• 1946 – Yiannis Parios, Greek singer
• 1947 – Michael Allsup, American guitarist (Three Dog Night)
• 1947 – Carole Bayer Sager, American singer-songwriter and painter
• 1947 – Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (d. 2011)
• 1947 – Vladimír Mišík, Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Matadors, Blue Effect, Flamengo, and Etc...)
• 1947 – Florentino Pérez, Spanish engineer and businessman
• 1948 – Robert W. Boyd, American physicist
• 1948 – Gyles Brandreth, English writer, broadcaster, actor and politician
• 1948 – Sam Lacey, American basketball player (d. 2014)
• 1948 – Peggy March, American singer
• 1948 – Jonathan Sacks, English rabbi and scholar
• 1949 – Natalia Kuchinskaya, Russian gymnast and coach
• 1949 – Karel Lismont, Belgian runner
• 1949 – Antonello Venditti, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Richard Ouzounian, Canadian director and critic
• 1951 – Ian Brown, English director and producer
• 1951 – Phil Edmonds, Zambian-English cricketer and businessman
• 1952 – George Allen, American lawyer and politician, 67th Governor of Virginia
• 1953 – Angelos Anastasiadis, Greek footballer and coach
• 1953 – Pepper MaShay, American singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Jim Rice, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1953 – Don Werner, American baseball player and coach
• 1954 – Cheryl Baker, English singer (Bucks Fizz and Co-Co)
• 1954 – Bob Brozman, American guitarist (R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders) (d. 2013)
• 1954 – David Wilkie, Sri Lankan-Scottish swimmer
• 1955 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981)
• 1956 – Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (d. 1989)
• 1956 – John Kapelos, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Clive Burr, English drummer and songwriter (Iron Maiden, Samson, and Trust) (d. 2013)
• 1957 – William Edward Childs, American pianist and composer
• 1957 – Cynthia Rothrock, American actress and martial artist
• 1957 – Bob Stoddard, American baseball player
• 1958 – Nick Capra, American baseball player and manager
• 1958 – Andy McDonald, English lawyer and politician
• 1958 – Gary Numan, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Tubeway Army)
• 1959 – Lester Holt, American journalist and actor
• 1959 – Aidan Quinn, Irish-American actor
• 1960 – Jeffrey Eugenides, American author and academic
• 1960 – Max Metzker, South African-Australian swimmer
• 1960 – Irek Mukhamedov, Russian ballet dancer
• 1960 – Buck Williams, American basketball player and coach
• 1961 – Camryn Manheim, American actress
• 1961 – Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and journalist
• 1961 – Mark Salas, American baseball player and coach
• 1962 – Leon Robinson, American actor
• 1962 – Shaun Gayle, American footballer
• 1963 – Mike Lalor, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1964 – Kate Betts, American journalist and author
• 1964 – Thomas Bezucha, American director and screenwriter
• 1964 – Lance McCullers, American baseball player
• 1965 – Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
• 1965 – Kenny Smith, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1966 – Gregory Barker, English politician
• 1966 – Jaime Levy, American computer scientist and academic
• 1967 – Joel Johnston, American baseball player
• 1968 – Michael Bartels, German race car driver
• 1968 – Jim Dougherty, American baseball player
• 1968 – Rob Dukes, American singer-songwriter (Exodus and Generation Kill)
• 1968 – Ellen Forney, American author and illustrator
• 1968 – Shawn Mullins, American singer-songwriter (The Thorns)
• 1968 – Joanna Read, English director and playwright
• 1969 – Juan de Dios Ramírez Perales, Mexican footballer
• 1970 – Jason Elam, American football player
• 1970 – Nazario Moreno González, Mexican drug lord (d. 2014)
• 1970 – Andrea Parker, American actress and former ballet dancer
• 1970 – Meredith Scott Lynn, American actress, producer and director
• 1971 – Kit Symons, English-Welsh footballer and manager
• 1972 – Georgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1972 – Angie Hart, Australian singer (Frente! and Splendid)
• 1972 – Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player
• 1972 – Matthew Nable, Australian rugby player and actor
• 1973 – Mickey Ferriols, American-Filipino actress
• 1973 – Boris Kodjoe, Austrian-American actor
• 1973 – Mark Lukasiewicz, American baseball player
• 1973 – Kurt Mollekens, Belgian race car driver
• 1973 – Justin Thompson, American baseball player
• 1973 – Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Gathering and The Gentle Storm)
• 1974 – Fardeen Khan, Indian actor
• 1974 – Mike Moriarty, American baseball player
• 1974 – Stefan Müller, German footballer
• 1975 – Mauro Briano, Italian footballer
• 1975 – Peggy Zina, Greek singer and actress
• 1976 – Gaz Coombes, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Supergrass, The Jennifers, and The Hotrats)
• 1976 – Juan Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Ryan Freel, American baseball player (d. 2012)
• 1976 – Freddie Prinze, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1976 – Hines Ward, American football player and sportscaster
• 1977 – James Van Der Beek, American actor
• 1977 – Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer
• 1978 – Nick Zano, American actor and producer
• 1979 – Apathy, American rapper and producer (Army of the Pharaohs and Get Busy Committee)
• 1979 – Tom Chaplin, English singer-songwriter (Keane)
• 1979 – Andy Ross, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (OK Go)
• 1979 – Jessica Jaymes, American porn actress
• 1980 – Stephen Milne, Australian footballer
• 1980 – Simon Peddie, Montserrat footballer
• 1980 – Charli Robinson, Australian actress and singer (Hi-5)
• 1981 – Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Glenda Gilson, Irish model and television host
• 1981 – Timothy Jordan II, American guitarist and songwriter (Jonezetta) (d. 2005)
• 1981 – Joost Posthuma, Dutch cyclist
• 1982 – Nicolas Armindo, French race car driver
• 1982 – Leonidas Kampantais, Greek footballer
• 1982 – Yuko Mizuno, Japanese entertainer, actress, and sportscaster
• 1982 – Craig Stansberry, American baseball player
• 1982 – Isak Strand, Norwegian drummer and electronica artist
• 1982 – Kat Von D, Mexican-American tattoo artist
• 1983 – André Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Mark Worrell, American baseball player
• 1984 – Rafik Djebbour, Algerian footballer
• 1984 – Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
• 1984 – Sasha Vujačić, Slovenian basketball player
• 1985 – Ewa Sonnet, Polish model and singer
• 1985 – Mio Takeuchi, Japanese actress
• 1986 – Princess Tsuguko of Takamado
• 1988 – Benny Blanco, American rapper and producer
• 1988 – Armanti Edwards, American football player
• 1988 – Elly Jackson, English singer-songwriter and producer (La Roux)
• 1988 – Bryan Termulo, Filipino singer and actor
• 1988 – Laura Unsworth, English field hockey player
• 1989 – Robbie Hummel, American basketball player
• 1990 – Kristinia DeBarge, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1990 – Asier Illarramendi, Spanish footballer
• 1990 – Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player
• 1990 – Nico Salva, Filipino basketball player
• 1990 – Ben Tozer, English footballer
• 1991 – Miriam Bryant, Swedish-Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1991 – Tom English, Australian rugby player
• 1992 – Uki Satake, Japanese idol, singer, actress, and radio host (9nine)
• 1993 – Stephanie Davis, English actress
• 1994 – Pablo Dyego, Brazilian footballer
• 1994 – Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (d. 2014)
• 1997 – Jurina Matsui, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48 and SKE48)

Deaths[edit]

• 1126 – Urraca of León and Castile (b. 1079)
• 1144 – Pope Celestine II
• 1223 – Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish bishop and historian (b. 1161)
• 1403 – Bayezid I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1360)
• 1550 – John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (b. 1495)
• 1641 – Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer and explorer (b. 1587)
• 1702 – William III of England (b. 1650)
• 1717 – Abraham Darby I, English blacksmith (b1678)
• 1731 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
• 1771 – Louis August le Clerc, French-Danish sculptor and academic (b. 1688)
• 1819 – Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel and politician (b. 1739)
• 1844 – Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
• 1855 – William Poole, American criminal (b. 1821)
• 1869 – Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor and music critic (b. 1803)
• 1872 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (b. 1815)
• 1874 – Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and politician, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
• 1887 – Henry Ward Beecher, American minister and activist (b. 1813)
• 1887 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (b. 1820)
• 1889 – John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer, designed the USS Monitor (b. 1803)
• 1907 – Marinos Antypas, Greek lawyer and journalist (b. 1872)
• 1917 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 – Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)
• 1923 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1925 – Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (b. 1866)
• 1930 – William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1930 – Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1935 – Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 – Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 – Sherwood Anderson, American author and poet (b. 1876)
• 1942 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888)
• 1943 – Léon Thiébaut, French fencer (b. 1878)
• 1944 – Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar, Turkish writer and politician (b. 1864)
• 1945 – Frederick Bligh Bond, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1864)
• 1948 – Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and seismologist (b. 1889)
• 1951 – Martha Beck, American murderer (b. 1920)
• 1951 – Raymond Fernandez, American murderer (b. 1914)
• 1957 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 – Thomas Beecham, English conductor and composer (b. 1879)
• 1971 – Harold Lloyd, American actor and producer (b. 1893)
• 1972 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American keyboard player and songwriter (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945)
• 1975 – George Stevens, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1976 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Joseph Henry Woodger, English biologist and philosopher (b. 1894)
• 1983 – Chabuca Granda, Peruvian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1920)
• 1983 – Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1904)
• 1983 – William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1986 – Kersti Merilaas, Estonian author and poet (b. 1913)
• 1988 – Amar Singh Chamkila, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1961)
• 1988 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist and academic (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Charles Exbrayat, French author (b. 1906)
• 1991 – John Bellairs, American author and academic (b. 1938)
• 1993 – Billy Eckstine, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1914)
• 1993 – Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player (b. 1899)
• 1995 – Paul Horgan, American historian and author (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (Helloween) (b. 1965)
• 1996 – Jack Churchill, Hong Kong-English colonel (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Ray Nitschke, American football player and actor (b. 1936)
• 1999 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Peggy Cass, American actress and game show panelist (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and coach (b. 1914)
• 1999 – William Wrigley III, American businessman (b. 1933)
• 2001 – Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
• 2003 – Karen Morley, American actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 2004 – Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
• 2004 – Muhammad Zaidan, Syrian terrorist, founded the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)
• 2005 – César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen commander and politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (b. 1951)
• 2006 – Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand surgeon (b. 1924)
• 2007 – John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Vicky Vanita, Greek actress (b. 1948)
• 2007 – John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach (b. 1947)
• 2008 – Carol Barnes, English journalist and actress (b. 1944)
• 2009 – Ali Bongo, Indian-English magician (b. 1929)
• 2009 – Hank Locklin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Zbigniew Religa, Polish surgeon and politician, Polish Minister of Health (b. 1938)
• 2011 – St. Clair Lee, American singer (The Hues Corporation) (b. 1944)
• 2011 – Mike Starr, American bass player (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun, and Days of the New) (b. 1966)
• 2012 – Leslie Cochran, American activist (b. 1951)
• 2012 – Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Mike Fetchick, American golfer (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Bugs Henderson, American guitarist (Mouse and the Traps) (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Minoru Mori, Japanese businessman, founded the Mori Art Museum (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Steven Rubenstein, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1962)
• 2013 – Haseeb Ahsan, Pakistani cricketer and manager (b. 1939)
• 2013 – John O'Connell, Irish journalist and politician (b. 1927)
• 2013 – George Saimes, American football player (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Raymond Telles, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Costa Rica (b. 1915)
• 2013 – Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, German soldier and publisher (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American holocaust survivor and author (b. 1921)
• 2014 – James Ellis, Irish-English actor (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Buren Fowler, American guitarist (Drivin N Cryin) (b. 1959)
• 2014 – William Guarnere, American sergeant (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Wendy Hughes Australian actress (b. 1952)
• 2014 – Larry Scott, American bodybuilder (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Inezita Barroso, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Pavlo Khudzik, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1985)
• 2015 – Tjol Lategan, South African rugby player (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Sam Simon, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955)
• 2015 – Lew Soloff, American trumpet player, composer, and actor (Blood, Sweat & Tears and Mingus Big Band) (b. 1944)

Carole King to play Tapestry at first UK concert since 1989

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Carole King is to play her first UK concert in more than 25 years at the BST festival in London's Hyde Park.

The singer-songwriter, 74, will play her seminal album Tapestry in full, followed by a selection of other hits.

It will be the first chance to see the King play the UK since her City Streets tour reached the Albert Hall in 1989.

"I can't wait to perform Tapestry from beginning to end for the first time... in the heart of one of my favourite cities," said the star. 

'Intimate and emotional'

Speaking to BBC 6 Music, the singer said it "actually wasn't my idea" to play the album in full, but "no-one has ever thought to ask [before] and I loved the the idea."

"I'll be adding other songs because it would be a very short set if I only did Tapestry," she continued. "I might actually even have it on my social networks where people can offer up their favourites and see if we can get a consensus and help me figure out which songs to add."

"The whole thing is very exciting to me," she added. "I'm really looking forward to it."

Recorded in the hippie utopia of Laurel Canyon in 1971, Tapestry featured a dozen classic songs, including It's Too Late, I Feel The Earth Move and You've Got A Friend.

Intimate and emotional, the record made King a star - but avid fans knew she had already been an enormously ­successful ­songwriter for more than a decade, writing hits like The Loco-Motion, Pleasant Valley Sunday and I'm Into Something Good with her lyricist ­husband Gerry Goffin.

She put her own stamp on some of those earlier songs - including (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman and Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - on Tapestry, which spent 15 consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 and was, until Thriller, the world's biggest-selling record by a solo artist.

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Tapestry tracklisting

Side one

1. I Feel the Earth Move
2. So Far Away
3. It's Too Late
4. Home Again
5. Beautiful
6. Way Over Yonder

Side two

1. You've Got a Friend
2. Where You Lead
3. Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
4. Smackwater Jack
5. Tapestry
6. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

Tapestry also became the cornerstone of King's career as a performer and, more recently, of her jukebox musical Beautiful, which opened in London last year.

Reflecting on the album's impact, King told the BBC: "I think the songs speak to people's humanity - to their deepest feelings of love and longing. 

"And with all the tumult in the world at any given moment, it's nice to touch that humanity."

Support for the UK gig will come from Don Henley, formerly of The Eagles, and King's own daughter, Louise Goffin.

Tickets go on general sale from Friday, 11 March, priced between £60 and £249.

Η οικογένεια του Δημήτρη Μητροπάνου ζητά να μη γίνει εκταφή

 ελληνικό νησί παρουσιάζεται ως ιδανικό για σεξοτουρισμό, από ολλανδικό πρακτορείο;

Ένα νέο είδος τουρισμού φαίνεται ότι έχει φέρει περισσότερους επισκέπτες στην  Ελλάδα. Η ανταλλαγή ζευγαριών έχει γίνει trend και η χώρα μας, όπως όλα φείχνουν δεν έχει μείνει πίσω.

Το ολλανδικό τουριστικό πρακτορείο SDC, ένα από τα μεγαλύτερα πρακτορεία στον κόσμο σε αυτό το είδος διακοπών, προωθεί για δεύτερη συνεχή χρονιά ένα πακέτο διακοπών που υπόσχεται 6 "καυτές"νύχτες, από 17 έως 23 Οκτωβρίου 2016, σε 5άστερο ξενοδοχείο all inclusive στην  Κρήτη, για swingers από την  Ολλανδία και όχι μόνο.

Η τιμή του πακέτου φέτος ξεκινά από 1.299 ευρώ στο Superior Room και φτάνει τα 2.149 ευρώ το άτομο στη Junior-Suite.

Στη σελίδα του πρακτορείου αναφέρονται:

"Βυθιστείτε σε μια γοητευτική ατμόσφαιρα χαλάρωσης στην παραλιακή πόλη της  Κρήτης που διαθέτει καλές καφετέριες, ταβέρνες και καταστήματα όπου μπορείτε να γευθείτε τις αυθεντικές τοπικές γεύσεις σε αποστάσεις που διανύονται με τα πόδια. Η  Κρήτη είναι το μεγαλύτερο νησί στην  Ελλάδα, που βρίσκεται στη νότια πλευρά του Αιγαίου. Ένας πανέμορφος προορισμός όπου μπορείτε να ανακαλύψετε μια όμορφη ακτογραμμή, μινωικά ανάκτορα, βενετσιάνικες πόλεις, μεσαιωνικά κάστρα, οθωμανικά τζαμιά και βυζαντινά μοναστήρια από παλαιότερους πολιτισμούς. Αν δεν έχετε βρεθεί στην  Κρήτη ακόμη, το γεγονός αυτό μπορεί να είναι η τέλεια ευκαιρία για να αισθανθείτε τις μυρωδιές από τα άνθη πορτοκαλιάς και γιασεμιού, με ομοϊδεάτες περιπετειώδη ζευγάρια και ένα ποτήρι παγωμένη ρακί".

Το πρακτορείο εγγυάται απόλυτη εχεμύθεια και διακριτικότητα, όσο αφορά την χρήση των στοιχείων των πελατών, που αυξάνονται κάθε χρόνο.

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• 141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
• 1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
• 1230 – Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
• 1276 – Augsburg becomes a Free imperial city.
• 1500 – The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
• 1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 1765 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
• 1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
• 1811 – Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
• 1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
• 1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
• 1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
• 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
• 1847 – Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
• 1896 – Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adwa.
• 1908 – Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.
• 1910 – The Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
• 1916 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
• 1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
• 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
• 1944 – World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
• 1944 – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
• 1945 – The first nocturnal incendiary attack on Tokyo inflicts damage comparable to that inflicted on Hiroshima five months later.
• 1945 – World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
• 1946 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
• 1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
• 1956 – Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
• 1957 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
• 1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
• 1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
• 1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
• 1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
• 1976 – Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
• 1977 – The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
• 1989 – Financially troubled Eastern Air Lines files for bankruptcy.
• 1991 – Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade.
• 1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
• 2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
• 2012 – First winter ascent of Gasherbrum I by Adam Bielecki and Janusz Gołąb.
• 2015 – Two helicopters collided near Villa Castelli, Argentina killing 10 people.

Births[edit]

• 1213 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1271)
• 1285 – Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (d. 1318)
• 1454 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer (d. 1512)
• 1564 – David Fabricius, German astronomer and theologian (d. 1617)
• 1568 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (d. 1591)
• 1627 – John Bowne, English-American activist (d. 1695)
• 1695 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish monk and scholar (d. 1772)
• 1720 – Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (d. 1790)
• 1727 – Johann Gottlieb Preller, German cantor, composer, and surveyor (d. 1786)
• 1737 – Josef Mysliveček, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1781)
• 1749 – Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and politician (d. 1791)
• 1753 – Jean Baptiste Kléber, French general (d. 1800)
• 1758 – Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroanatomist and physiologist (d. 1828)
• 1763 – William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
• 1806 – Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
• 1814 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and playwright (d. 1861)
• 1815 – David Davis, American jurist and politician (d. 1886)
• 1820 – Samuel Blatchford, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1893)
• 1824 – Amasa Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, founded Stanford University (d. 1893)
• 1833 – Frederick A. Schroeder, German-American businessman and politician (d. 1899)
• 1839 – Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (d. 1908)
• 1847 – Martin Pierre Marsick, Belgian violinist, composer, and educator (d. 1924)
• 1850 – Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor (d. 1925)
• 1856 – Eddie Foy, Sr., American actor and dancer (d. 1928)
• 1856 – Tom Roberts, English-Australian painter (d. 1931)
• 1882 – Arthur Beecher Carles, American painter and academic (d. 1952)
• 1887 – Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician (d. 1976)
• 1887 – Phil Mead, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1958)
• 1890 – Rupert Balfe, Australian footballer and lieutenant (d. 1915)
• 1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1986)
• 1891 – José P. Laurel, Filipino lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
• 1892 – Vita Sackville-West, English author, poet, and gardener (d. 1962)
• 1894 – Frank Arnau, German journalist and author (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta (d. 1948)
• 1902 – Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1904 – Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American soldier and engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (d. 2002)
• 1905 – Gerard Helders, Dutch jurist and politician, Dutch Minister of Colonial Affairs (d. 2013)
• 1909 – Derk Bodde, American sinologist and historian (d. 2003)
• 1910 – Samuel Barber, American pianist and composer (d. 1981)
• 1911 – Clara Rockmore, Lithuanian, virtuosa theremin performer (an electronic musical instrument) (d. 1998)
• 1915 – Johnnie Johnson, English air marshal and pilot (d. 2001)
• 1918 – George Lincoln Rockwell, American sailor and politician, founded the American Nazi Party (d. 1967)
• 1918 – Mickey Spillane, American author and actor (d. 2006)
• 1919 – Cengiz Dağcı, Ukrainian author and poet (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Frank J. Dixon, American immunologist and academic (d. 2008)
• 1920 – Franjo Mihalić, Croatian-Serbian runner and coach (d. 2015)
• 1921 – Carl Betz, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1921 – Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (d. 1998)
• 1922 – Bill Bainbridge, English former footballer
• 1922 – Ian Turbott, New Zealand-Australian former diplomat and university administrator
• 1923 – James L. Buckley, American lawyer, judge, and politician
• 1923 – André Courrèges, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
• 1923 – Walter Kohn, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1924 – Peter Scholl-Latour, German professor, journalist and author (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Joe Franklin, American radio and television host (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer and academic (d. 1990)
• 1929 – Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Guyana (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 19th President of Bangladesh (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (d. 2015)
• 1930 – Taina Elg, Finnish-American actress and dancer
• 1931 – Thore Skogman, Swedish singer, entertainer and songwriter (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Sam Williams, American football player (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter and academic (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican-American astrologer and actor
• 1932 – Jože Pučnik, Slovenian sociologist and politician (d. 2003)
• 1932 – Keely Smith, American singer
• 1933 – Mel Lastman, Canadian businessman and politician, 62nd Mayor of Toronto
• 1933 – Lloyd Price, American singer-songwriter
• 1933 – David Weatherall, English physician, geneticist, and academic
• 1934 – Del Close, American actor, author, and educator (d. 1999)
• 1934 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1968)
• 1934 – Marlene Streit, Canadian-American golfer
• 1934 – Joyce Van Patten, American actress
• 1935 – Andrew Viterbi, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Qualcomm Inc.
• 1936 – Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1936 – Marty Ingels, American actor (d. 2015)
• 1936 – Tom Sestak, American football player (d. 1987)
• 1937 – Bernard Landry, Canadian lawyer and politician, 28th Premier of Quebec
• 1937 – Harry Neale, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1937 – Brian Redman, English race car driver
• 1938 – Lill-Babs, Swedish singer and actress
• 1938 – Tom Adams, English actor (d. 2014)
• 1940 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (d. 1994)
• 1941 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal, inspired the Miranda rights (d. 1976)
• 1942 – Pedro Bandeira, Brazilian children's author
• 1942 – John Cale, Welsh singer-songwriter, viola player, and producer (The Velvet Underground and Theatre of Eternal Music)
• 1942 – Mark Lindsay, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer (Paul Revere & the Raiders)
• 1943 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (d. 2008)
• 1943 – Charles Gibson, American journalist
• 1943 – Trish Van Devere, American actress
• 1944 – Lee Irvine, South African cricketer
• 1944 – Paola Quattrini, Italian actress
• 1945 – Robert Calvert, English singer-songwriter and playwright (Hawkwind) (d. 1988)
• 1945 – Robin Trower, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Procol Harum and The Paramounts)
• 1946 – Alexandra Bastedo, English actress (d. 2014)
• 1946 – Jim Cregan, English guitarist and songwriter (Blossom Toes, Streetwalkers, and Family)
• 1946 – Warren Skaaren, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1990)
• 1946 – Bernd Hölzenbein, German football player
• 1946 – Jan Baan, Dutch entrepreneur
• 1947 – Richard Adams, Filipino-American activist (d. 2012)
• 1947 – Keri Hulme, New Zealand author and poet
• 1948 – Emma Bonino, Italian politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1948 – Eric Fischl, American painter and sculptor
• 1948 – Jeffrey Osborne, American singer and drummer (L.T.D.)
• 1948 – Chris Thompson, English singer and guitarist (Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Night)
• 1949 – Trevor Burton, English guitarist (The Move)
• 1949 – Neil Hamilton, Welsh lawyer and politician
• 1950 – Doug Ault, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
• 1950 – Howard Shelley, English pianist and conductor
• 1950 – Danny Sullivan, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1951 – Zakir Hussain, Indian tabla player, composer, and actor
• 1951 – Michael Kinsley, American journalist and actor
• 1951 – Helen Zille, South African journalist and politician, 7th Premier of the Western Cape
• 1952 – Bill Beaumont, English rugby player and manager
• 1953 – Willem Boeschoten, Dutch rower
• 1953 – Lucinha Lins, Brazilian actress and singer
• 1953 – Alan Massey, British Royal Navy admiral; Second Sea Lord
• 1954 – Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer; elected sinn Fèin MP (d. 1981)
• 1954 – Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle sidecar racer (d. 1982)
• 1955 – Teo Fabi, Italian race car driver
• 1955 – Ornella Muti, Italian actress
• 1955 – Józef Pinior, Polish academic and politician
• 1956 – Mark Dantonio, American football player and coach
• 1956 – Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs
• 1956 – David Willetts, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
• 1957 – Faith Daniels, American journalist and talk show host
• 1957 – Mark Mancina, American guitarist and composer
• 1957 – Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
• 1958 – Linda Fiorentino, American actress
• 1958 – Martin Fry, English singer-songwriter (ABC and Vice Versa)
• 1958 – Jack Kenny, American screenwriter and producer
• 1958 – Branko Vukelić, Croatian politician, 11th Croatian Minister of Defence (d. 2013)
• 1958 – Paul MacLean, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 – Tom Amandes, American actor and director
• 1959 – Giovanni di Lorenzo, German-Italian journalist
• 1959 – Takaaki Kajita, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1959 – Lonny Price, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Finn Carter, American actress and photographer
• 1960 – Elsa Cayat, French columnist and psychoanalyst (d. 2015)
• 1961 – Mike Leach, American football player and coach
• 1961 – Rick Steiner, American wrestler
• 1961 – Darrell Walker, American basketball player and coach
• 1962 – Jan Furtok, Polish footballer and manager
• 1962 – Pete Wishart, Scottish singer and politician (Big Country and Runrig)
• 1963 – Ivan Henjak, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1963 – Terry Mulholland, American baseball player
• 1963 – David Pogue, American journalist
• 1963 – Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director and screenwriter
• 1964 – Juliette Binoche, French actress
• 1964 – Phil Housley, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1964 – Valérie Lemercier, French actress, singer, director
• 1964 – Aleksandr Puštov, Russian-Estonian footballer and manager
• 1964 – Steve Wilkos, American talk show host and former police officer
• 1965 – Brian Bosworth, American football player and actor
• 1965 – Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1966 – Brendan Canty, American drummer and songwriter (Fugazi)
• 1966 – Tony Lockett, Australian footballer
• 1966 – Michael Patrick MacDonald, Irish-American author and activist
• 1968 – Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
• 1968 – Brian Heidik, American reality show contestant, winner of Survivor: Thailand
• 1968 – Johnny Kelly, American drummer (Type O Negative, Danzig, A Pale Horse Named Death, and Seventh Void)
• 1969 – Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player
• 1969 – Kimberly Guilfoyle, American lawyer and journalist
• 1969 – Stefie Shock, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Naveen Jindal, Indian politician
• 1970 – Martin Johnson, English rugby player and coach
• 1970 – Shannon Leto, American drummer and actor (Thirty Seconds to Mars and The Wondergirls)
• 1970 – Stephen Phillips, English lawyer and politician
• 1970 – David Guido Pietroni, Italian director and producer
• 1971 – C-Murder, American rapper
• 1971 – Emmanuel Lewis, American actor
• 1971 – Diego Torres, Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1972 – Spencer Howson, Australian radio host
• 1972 – Kerr Smith, American actor
• 1973 – Aaron Boone, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Liam Griffin, English racing driver and businessman
• 1974 – Mark Harrity, Australian cricketer
• 1975 – Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1975 – Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentinian footballer
• 1976 – Yamila Diaz-Rahi, Argentinian model and actress
• 1976 – Ben Mulroney, Canadian journalist and game show host
• 1977 – Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player
• 1978 – MickDeth, American bass player (Eighteen Visions, Bleeding Through, and Clear) (d. 2013)
• 1978 – Lucas Neill, Australian footballer
• 1979 – Iryna Charnushenka-Stasiuk, Belarusian long jumper (d. 2013)
• 1979 – Melina Perez, American wrestler and actress
• 1979 – Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
• 1980 – Trent Croad, New Zealand-Australian footballer
• 1980 – Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor, model, and writer
• 1980 – Burçin Terzioğlu, Turkish actress
• 1981 – Antonio Bryant, American football player
• 1981 – Clay Rapada, American baseball player
• 1982 – Matt Bowen, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 – Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, Croatian tennis player
• 1983 – Bobby Campo, American actor
• 1983 – Clint Dempsey, American soccer player
• 1983 – Ioannis Masmanidis, German footballer
• 1983 – Maite Perroni, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (RBD)
• 1983 – Wayne Simien, American basketball player
• 1984 – Brian Cusworth, American basketball player
• 1984 – Abdoulay Konko, French footballer
• 1984 – Julia Mancuso, American skier
• 1985 – Brent Burns, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Jesse Litsch, American baseball player
• 1985 – Rachel Nabors, American illustrator
• 1985 – Parthiv Patel, Indian cricketer
• 1986 – Brittany Snow, American actress and singer
• 1987 – Bow Wow, American rapper
• 1988 – Alodia Gosiengfiao, Filipino model, actress, and singer
• 1989 – Artem Borodulin, Russian figure skater
• 1989 – Yudai Chiba, Japanese actor
• 1989 – Kim Tae-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation Girls' Generation-TTS, and SM the Ballad)
• 1990 – YG, American rapper
• 1990 – Daley Blind, Dutch footballer
• 1990 – Bilel Ifa, Tunisian footballer
• 1990 – Tatsuki Machida, Japanese figure skater
• 1990 – Aras Özbiliz, Turkish footballer
• 1990 – Matt Robinson, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1991 – Domo Genesis, American rapper (Odd Future)
• 1991 – Brenna O'Brien, Canadian actress
• 1992 – Dianne Necio, Filipino model, Binibining Pilipinas-International 2011
• 1993 – Larnell Cole, English footballer
• 1994 – Angeli Gonzales, Filipino actress
• 1995 – Hikaru Ohsawa, Japanese actress

Deaths[edit]

• 1202 – Sverre of Norway (b. 1145)
• 1422 – Jan Želivský, Czech priest (b. 1380)
• 1440 – Frances of Rome, Italian nun and saint (b. 1384)
• 1566 – David Rizzio, Italian-Scottish courtier and politician (b. 1533)
• 1649 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1606)
• 1649 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier and politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (b. 1590)
• 1661 – Cardinal Mazarin, Italian-French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1602)
• 1709 – Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English courtier and politician (b. 1638)
• 1808 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect, designed the Piercefield House and St James' Church (b. 1739)
• 1810 – Ozias Humphry, English painter and academic (b. 1742)
• 1825 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, author, and critic (b.1743)
• 1851 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (b. 1777)
• 1888 – William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
• 1895 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian journalist and author (b. 1836)
• 1897 – Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, Afghan ideologist and activist (b. 1838)
• 1897 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian-American skier (b. 1825)
• 1905 – Nikolai Anderson, Estonian philologist and linguist (b. 1845)
• 1918 – Frank Wedekind, German author and playwright (b. 1864)
• 1925 – Willard Metcalf, American painter (b. 1858)
• 1926 – Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual leader, founded Reiki (b. 1865)
• 1937 – Paul Elmer More, American journalist and critic (b. 1864)
• 1943 – Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (b. 1878)
• 1947 – Jhaverchand Meghani, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1948 – Edgar de Wahl, Ukrainian-Estonian linguist and scholar (b. 1867)
• 1954 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer and academic (b. 1912)
• 1954 – Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (b. 1874)
• 1955 – Miroslava, Czechoslovakian-Mexican actress (b. 1925)
• 1960 – Jack Beattie, Northern Irish educator and politician (b. 1886)
• 1964 – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1966 – Pablo Birger, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1924)
• 1969 – Abdul Munim Riad Egyptian general (b. 1919)
• 1971 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1975 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor and educator (b. 1888)
• 1983 – Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 – Rex Marshall, American actor and radio host (b. 1919)
• 1983 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Harry Catterick, English footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• 1988 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
• 1989 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
• 1991 – Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 1992 – Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Bob Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1913)
• 1993 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Charles Bukowski, German-American author and poet (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler, referee, and manager (b. 1928)
• 1994 – Maurice Purtill, American drummer (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1916)
• 1994 – Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
• 1996 – George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
• 1996 – Harold Baigent, New Zealand actor (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Jean-Dominique Bauby, French journalist and author (b. 1952)
• 1997 – Terry Nation, Welsh author and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 1997 – The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (Junior M.A.F.I.A.) (b. 1972)
• 1999 – Harry Somers, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Ivo Robić, Croatian singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Stan Brakhage, American director and cinematographer (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician, 2nd President of Nauru (b. 1946)
• 2004 – Gerald Deskin, American psychologist and therapist (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Rust Epique, American guitarist and painter (Crazy Town and pre)Thing) (b. 1968)
• 2004 – Albert Mol, Dutch actor and author (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Chris LeDoux, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Kurt Lotz, German businessman (b. 1912)
• 2005 – István Nyers, French-Hungarian footballer (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Jeanette Schmid, Czech-Austrian whistler (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Tom Fox, American activist (b. 1951)
• 2006 – Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian computer programmer, co-founded Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)
• 2006 – John Profumo, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Laura Stoica, Romanian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Brad Delp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Boston, RTZ, and Beatlejuice) (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, American lawyer and politician (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Willie Davis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Doris Haddock, American activist and politician (b. 1910)
• 2011 – David S. Broder, American journalist and academic (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Peter Bergman, American comedian and actor (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Herb Carnegie, Canadian ice hockey player and golfer (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Willye Dennis, American librarian and politician (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Joy Mukherjee, Indian actor and director (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Jose Tomas Sanchez, Filipino cardinal (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Max Jakobson, Finnish journalist and diplomat (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Viren J. Shah, Indian politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Merton Simpson, American painter and art collector (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Mohammed Fahim, Afghan field marshal and politician, Vice President of Afghanistan (b. 1924)
• 2014 – William Clay Ford, Sr., American businessman (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Glenn McDuffie, American sailor (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Carlos Moreno, Argentinian actor and director (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Nazario Moreno González, Mexican drug lord (b. 1970)
• 2015 – David B. Frohnmayer, American lawyer and politician, 12th Oregon Attorney General (b. 1940)
• 2015 – Wayne Kemp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
• 2015 – Windell Middlebrooks, American actor and singer (b. 1979)
• 2015 – James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, British soldier and peer; Northern Irish politician (b. 1920)
• 2015 – Camille Muffat, French swimmer (b. 1989)
• 2015 – Alexis Vastine, French boxer (b. 1986)
• 2015 – Rico Alaniz, Mexican-born American film and television actor (b. 1919)

'Fifth Beatle' Sir George Martin dies, aged 90

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Record producer Sir George Martin, known as the "fifth Beatle", has died, aged 90. 

His family thanked "everyone for their thoughts, prayers and messages of support" after his death at home on Tuesday, his manager said.

Beatles drummer Ringo Starr broke the news on Twitter and led tributes, saying Sir George "will be missed".

Sir George signed the Beatles and produced more than 700 records. 

He also worked with artists including Gerry and the Pacemakers, Dame Shirley Bassey and Cilla Black.

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Manager Adam Sharp said: "The family would like to thank everyone for their thoughts, prayers and messages of support.

"In a career that spanned seven decades, he was an inspiration to many and is recognised globally as one of music's most creative talents. He was a true gentleman to the end." 

A carpenter's son from Holloway in north London, Sir George helped the Beatles achieve global success as the head of the Parlophone record label after hearing their demo tape in 1962.

He took them from their mop-top recordings in the early 1960s to the psychedelia of Sergeant Pepper.

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By Mark Savage, BBC Music reporter

Without George Martin, the Beatles would have been a very different band. 

His calm demeanour and technical expertise allowed the band to experiment and indulge in their wildest and most elaborate ideas. On many occasions, Lennon and McCartney would entrust him with arranging their songs - the string quartet on Yesterday is all his work, while he plays the piano solo on Misery. 

Famously, Martin walked out of the band's first recording session at Abbey Road, leaving his engineers to supervise the recording of Besame Mucho while he went to the canteen. 

But when the group started playing Love Me Do, a tape operator was despatched to fetch him. It was the start of the most productive producer-musician relationship in modern pop - although the Beatles weren't quite ready to accept this suave Londoner to their inner circle. 

As the recording session finished, Martin asked if there was anything the band didn't like. "Well, for a start," replied George Harrison, "I don't like your tie."

Luckily, he saw the funny side - and together the quintet rewrote the rule book on popular music. 

After the Beatles disbanded, Martin wrote film scores and worked with artists as varied as Sting, Jose Carreras, Celine Dion and Stan Getz. 

In 1997, he produced Elton John's re-write of Candle In The Wind, which went on to become the biggest-selling single of all time.

Despite beginning his career as an oboist, the classically-trained producer never regretted making his name in the mass market. 

"Rock and roll has the same function as classical music," he once said. "To make sounds that are appealing to a mass of people and are of some worth."

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'A little bit posh'

Of his reputation as the "toff" guiding the working-class Beatles to fame, Sir George said: "I've been cast in the role of schoolmaster, the toff, the better-educated, and they've been the urchins that I've shaped.

"It's a load of poppycock, really, because our backgrounds were very similar. Paul and John went to quite good schools. We didn't pay to go to school, my parents were very poor. Again, I wasn't taught music and they weren't, we taught ourselves.

"As for the posh bit, you can't really go through the Royal Navy without getting a little bit posh. You can't be like a rock 'n' roll idiot throwing soup around in the wardroom."

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In his lifetime, he won multiple Grammy awards and an Academy Award for the score to A Hard Day's Night. 

Sir George received a knighthood in 1996 and in 1999, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Starr, 75, wrote: "God bless George Martin peace and love to Judy and his family love Ringo and Barbara George will be missed."

In a second message, he added: "Thank you for all your love and kindness George peace and love."

BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz described Sir George as "a visionary".

He said: "The Beatles were like an orchestra without a conductor, until the visionary George Martin gave them a shape and a sound. A wonderful man."

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Sean Ono Lennon posted a picture of Sir George on Instagram, writing: "R.I.P. George Martin. I'm so gutted I don't have many words. Thinking of Judy and Giles and family. Love Always, Sean." 

Prime Minister David Cameron wrote: "Sir George Martin was a giant of music - working with the Fab Four to create the world's most enduring pop music."

'Visionary producer'

Neil Portnow, president and chief executive of The Recording Academy, paid tribute to the six-time Grammy winner. 

"Having worked on hundreds of recordings, he was one of the most innovative producers of all time and his impact on music is unparalleled," he said. 

"Our creative community has lost a gifted artist, and our thoughts go out to his family, his friends, and the many musicians with whom he collaborated." 

Sir Roger Moore wrote: "How very sad to wake to the news Sir George Martin has left us. He made my first Bond film sound brilliant!"

Liam Gallagher, lead singer of rock band Oasis, who modelled themselves on the Beatles, said on Twitter: "Sir George Martin RIP LG X" 

Musician Lenny Kravitz wrote: "The legends are really going home! Visionary producer of #TheBeatles, George Martin (1926-2016)."

Ελληνική Μπύρα: Ο μεγάλος νικητής

«Αισθανόμαστε πολύ τυχεροί που ζούμε σε ένα μέρος όπως 

είναι η Θράκη και κάνουμε το όνειρό μας πραγματικότητα.

 Κάθε χρόνο αναπτυσσόμαστε και κερδίζουμε μερίδια στην

 αγορά, πάντα με αγάπη για την δουλειά μας», δήλωσε στο 

ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ ο πρόεδρος της Ζυθοποιίας Μακεδονίας-Θράκης,

 Δημήτρης Πολιτόπουλος.

Επεσήμανε δε ότι «ο πλέον αναπτυσσόμενος τομέας των ελληνικών μικρομεσαίων

 επιχειρήσεων είναι ο κλάδος της ζυθοποιίας».

«Όταν ήρθαμε στην Ελλάδα από τις ΗΠΑ, ήμασταν η πρώτη ελληνική εταιρία

 παραγωγής μπύρας. Σήμερα, υπάρχουν 28 μικρές ζυθοποιίες που παράγουν κάτω 

από 200.000 εκατόλιτρα ετησίως και πιστεύουμε ότι στην επόμενη διετία ή τριετία

 το πολύ, θα φθάσουν τις εκατό. Πρόκειται για ένα ραγδαία αναπτυσσόμενο 

κλάδο. Οι επενδύσεις γίνονται σε όλη την ελληνική επικράτεια στα νησιά και στην 

ηπειρωτική χώρα», αναφέρει ο ίδιος.

(Ελληνικές Μπύρες)

Είναι χαρακτηριστικό, το γεγονός ότι η Ελλάδα είναι πλέον αυτάρκης τόσο 

τεχνολογικά στον τομέα της ζυθοποιίας όσο και στην παραγωγή της βύνης.

Η βύνη, μέχρι πριν λίγα χρόνια ήταν εξ’ ολοκλήρου εισαγόμενη στην Ελλάδα, ενώ

 σήμερα η Ζυθοποιία Μακεδονίας - Θράκης διαθέτοντας το μοναδικό ελληνικό

 βυνοποιείο, καλύπτει την εγχώρια αγορά και με επιπλέον δυνατότητα εξαγωγών.
Σε ό,τι αφορά την πρόσφατη δικαστική διαμάχη με την Αθηναϊκή Ζυθοποιία,

 θυγατρική της Heineken στην Ελλάδα, ο Δημήτρης Πολιτόπουλος υποστηρίζει

 ότι «η συγκεκριμένη εταιρία κατηγορήθηκε για κατάχρηση δεσπόζουσας θέσης 

στην ελληνική αγορά από το 1998 μέχρι σήμερα και καταδικάστηκε από την 

επιτροπή ανταγωνισμού».

(ο Δήμήτρης Πολιτόπουλος)

Η Ζυθοποιία Μακεδονίας - Θράκης είναι εγκατεστημένη στην ΒΙΠΕ Κομοτηνής

 από το 1998, συνδυάζοντας τα επιχειρηματικά κίνητρα με το φυσικό περιβάλλον

 και τους ανθρώπους της περιοχής και για τον λόγο αυτό ο κ. Πολιτόπουλος δηλώνει

 «εξαιρετικά ικανοποιημένος» και έχοντας το πλεονέκτημα της ηλικίας έτοιμος

 «να μετατρέπει τα όνειρα σε ιδέες και τις ιδέες σε πράξεις».
Πρόσφατα η εταιρία επεκτάθηκε και στην παραγωγή του παγωμένου τσαγιού.

 «Φτιάξαμε το τσάι του βουνού συλλέγοντας το από φυτείες στα βουνά της

 Θράκης, προσθέτοντας αγνό ελληνικό μέλι και στύβοντας ελληνικά λεμόνια,

 δημιουργήσαμε ένα υπέροχο παγωμένο τσάι», καταλήγει ο Δημήτρης 

Πολιτόπουλος, κάνοντας λόγο για την υπέρβαση της κρίσης στην ελληνική

 οικονομία που περνά μέσα από την αλλαγή νοοτροπίας και αντίληψης για το

 επιχειρείν στην Ελλάδα.