Stjepan "Stipe" Mesi? is a Croatian politician who served as the second President of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before his ten-year presidential term, he held the posts of Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, Prime Minister of Croatia, the last President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia, Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement, a judge in Na?ice and mayor of his home town of Orahovica. Mesi? was a deputy in the Croatian Parliament in the 1960s, and was then absent from politics until 1990 when he joined the Croatian Democratic Union, and was named Prime Minister after HDZ won the elections. He was appointed to serve as SR Croatia's member of the Yugoslav Federal Presidency where he served first as Vice President and then in 1991 as the last President of Yugoslavia before Yugoslavia dissolved. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Mesi? served as Speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 1992 to 1994, when he left HDZ. With several other members of parliament, he formed a new party called Croatian Independent Democrats. In 1997 the majority of HND members, including Mesi?, merged into the Croatian People's Party. 

December 24th, 1934 in Orahovica (Age 89)