Christos Sartzetakis is a Greek jurist and former supreme justice of the Court of Cassation, who served as the President of the Third Hellenic Republic from 1985 to 1990. He was born in Neapoli, Thessaloniki in 1929. His father who was serving as a police officer in Thessaloniki - where he met his mother - was Cretan, having born in Kandanos, Chania, while his mother who was born in Sklithro, Florina was Greek Macedonian He entered the Law Faculty of the University of Thessaloniki in 1946, and received his degree in 1950, after which he practiced law in Thessaloniki. In 1954 he received his license to practice law after successfully completing the Bar examination. In November 1955, he was named Justice of the Peace. A year later, he became a magistrate of the Court of First Instance. He was the unyielding prosecutor in the sensational case of the assassination of the left-wing member of Parliament Grigoris Lambrakis, committed on 22 May 1963 in Thessaloniki by right-wing extremists. Lambrakis had called for Greece to disarm and withdraw from NATO. Over half a million people attended his funeral. 

April 6th, 1929 in Neapoli  /  Died:   Feb 3rd, 2022 - acute respiratory failure - aged 92