Radoje Knežević, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Radoje Knežević

Yugoslav Minister

Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1901

Place of Birth: Stragari, Serbia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1981

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Radoje Kneževic (Serbian Cyrillic: ?????? ????????; 20 August 1901 – 22 June 1983) was a key member of the group that organised the Yugoslav coup d'état of 27 March 1941 that deposed the regency of Prince Paul, Dr.
Radenko Stankovic and Dr.
Ivo Perovic, along with the government of Prime Minister Dragiša Cvetkovic.
Following the coup he was appointed as the Minister of the Royal Court, and after the resulting invasion of Yugoslavia, he accompanied the King and government into exile in Cairo then London.
Along with his brother Živan, he was a member of the so-called "League of Majors", who were at the centre of the ill-fated Greater Serbian agenda of the Yugoslav government-in-exile and who were instrumental in having Draža Mihailovic appointed as Chief of Staff of the Yugoslav Supreme Command.
He was sidelined in June 1943 when he was appointed to the Yugoslav legation in Portugal.
He remained in exile after the war, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour in absentia during the Belgrade Process conducted by the country's newly established communist authorities, and emigrated to Canada where he lived until his death in 1983.