1996
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Events
August
- August 14: Solomos Solomou is shot dead by a Turkish Cypriot politician at Derynia, Cyprus.
Deaths
March
- March 18: Odysseus Elytis, Nobel prize winning poet, born in Heraklion, Crete
June
- June 23: Andreas Papandreou, politician
September
- September 17: Spiro Agnew, Greek-American Vice-President of the United States.
October
- October 21: Georgios Zoitakis, member of the military regime that ruled Greece from 1967-1974