Slobodan Milo?evi? was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician who was the President of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. Among his supporters, Milo?evi? was known by the nickname of "Sloba". He also led the Socialist Party of Serbia from its foundation in 1990. He rose to power as Serbian President after he and his supporters claimed need to reform the 1974 Constitution of Yugoslavia due to alleged marginalization of Serbia and political incapacity for Serbia to deter Albanian separatist unrest in the province of Kosovo due to the high level of autonomy granted to the government in Kosovo that was claimed to have separatist sympathies. His presidency of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was marked by the breakup of Yugoslavia and the subsequent Yugoslav Wars. In the midst of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, Milo?evi? was charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia with war crimes including genocide, and crimes against humanity in connection to the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. [More at Wikipedia]

August 20th, 1941 in Po?arevac  /  Died:   Mar 11th, 2006 - at age 65, found dead in his prison cell at the U.N. tribunal in The Hague