deaths
March 2, 2009
João Bernardo Vieira, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1939)
João Bernardo Vieira
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira was a Bissau-Guinean politician and military officer who served as President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999, except for a three-day period in May 1984, and from 2005 until his assassination in 2009.
List of presidents of Guinea-Bissau
This article lists the presidents of Guinea-Bissau, since the establishment of the office of president in 1973.