January 7

Events

• 1931: The mutilated corpse of builder Dimitrios Athanasopoulos is found. This, one of the most heinous crimes in Greek annals, was later discovered to be the work of Athanasopoulos' wife and his mother-in-law.

Births

• 1934: Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus.

Deaths

• 1944: Napoleon Lapathiotis, poet (suicide)

Namesday

• Saint John the Baptist