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Events
January
- January 15: A committee is established to organise the transfer of the remains of Andreas Kalvos from England to Greece
April
- April 11: Nikos Syllas breaks the Greek record in the discus: 51.00m
- April 15: Archaeological digs bring to light a palace in ancient Pylos, possibly that of Trojan War hero King Nestor.
June
- June 1: An earthquake rocks Kalavryta, Achaea prefecture.
July
- July 1: Ioannis Palamiotis breaks the Greek record for the triple jump with 14.87m.
- July 7: Ioannis Drosopoulos is approved as governor of the Bank of Greece
- July 8: Ioannis Palamiotis breaks the Greek record for the triple jump with 15.03m. This record - the first time a Greek athlete broke the 15m barrier - will stand for 17 years.
August
September
- September 24: Radio BBC broadcasts in Greece for the first time.
October
- October 24: It is announced that the population of Greece, as of the end of 1938, is 7,107,472.
Births
January
- January 3: Nikos Alefantos, football player and coach
- January 13: Jacek Gmoch, football coach.
- January 16: Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Christodoulos.
- January 21: Phaedon Georgitsis, actor.
February
- February 10: Jenny Vanou, singer.
- February 18: Andreas Papaemmanouil, footballer.
March
- March 2: Aristides Kamaras, footballer
- March 14: Stavros Xarchakos, composer
April
- April 8: Manolis Angelopoulos, singer.
May
- May 12: Miltiades Ewert, politician, Mayor of Athens
July
- July 2: Alexandros Panagoulis, anti-Junta activist and politician.
- July 21: John Negroponte, Greek-American career diplomat
- July 23: Nicholas Gage, Greek-American writer and journalist.
October
- October 23: Myron Anyfandakis, athlete (javelin throw)
- October 31: Yiannis Kalamitsis, theatrical playwriter, reporter and radio producer
November
- November 4: Martha Karayianni, actress
- November 25: Eleni Karaindrou, music composer
December
- December 19: Akis Tsochatzopoulos, politician
Deaths
April
- April 3: Spyros Mercouris, mayor of Athens and grandfather of Melina Mercouri.