Aristotle Onassis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aristotle Onassis

Greek shipping magnate

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1906

Place of Birth: İzmir, Turkey

Date of Death: 15-Mar-1975

Profession: diplomat, shipowner, water polo player

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Aristotle Socrates Onassis (; Greek: ???st?t???? O??s??, Aristotelis Onasis; 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975), commonly called Ari or Aristo Onassis, was a Greek shipping magnate who amassed the world's largest privately owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men.
He was known for his business success, his great wealth and also his personal life, including his marriage to Athina Mary Livanos (daughter of shipping tycoon Stavros G.
Livanos).
He was also known for his affair with famous opera singer Maria Callas and his 1968 marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of American President John F.
Kennedy.Onassis was born in Smyrna (modern-day Izmir in Turkey) and fled the city with his family to Greece in 1922 in the wake of the Greco-Turkish War.
He moved to Argentina in 1923 and established himself as a tobacco trader and later a shipping owner during the Second World War.
Moving to Monaco, Onassis fought Prince Rainer III for economic control of the country through his ownership of SBM and its Monte Carlo Casino.
In the mid-1950s, he sought to secure an oil shipping arrangement with Saudi Arabia and engaged in whaling expeditions.
In the 1960s, Onassis attempted to establish a large investment contract—Project Omega—with the Greek military junta, and he sold Olympic Airways, which he had founded in 1957.
Onassis was greatly affected by the death of his 24-year-old son, Alexander, in a plane crash in 1973, and he died two years later.