Stjepan Mesić

Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić is a Croatian lawyer and politician who served as President of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before serving two five-year terms as president, he was prime minister of SR Croatia (1990) after the first multi-party elections, the last president of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1991) and consequently secretary general of the Non-Aligned Movement (1991), as well as speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994), a judge in Našice, and mayor of his hometown of Orahovica.

24 December 1934

Born on the same birth date (24 December 1934): Alex Hutchinson (musician) • John Critchinson

Born on the same birth day (24 December): Baby Dodds • Charles Harvey Bollman • Charles Wakefield Cadman • Doyle Bramhall II • Eric Moreland • Jay Wright (basketball) • Johnny Gruelle • Julie Bondeli • Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal • Kit Carson • Kyrylo Fesenko • Louis Tomlinson • Matthew Arnold • Nick Kent • Oleg Skripochka • Paul Foot (comedian) • Ralph Marterie • Sascha Fischer • Sigrid Schauman

Born in the same month (December 1934): Abimael Guzmán • Al Kaline • Billy Paul • Casper R. Taylor Jr. • Charlie Hodge (guitarist) • David Pearson (racing driver) • Del Shannon • Hanif Mohammad • Howard Martin Temin • Irving Petlin • Joseph Bologna • Joseph P. Hoar • Judi Dench • Junior Wells • Maggie Smith • Nick Bockwinkel • Pratibha Patil • Richard D. Zanuck • Russ Tamblyn • Salim Durani