Juozas Urbšys, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Juozas Urbšys

Lithuanian politician

Date of Birth: 29-Feb-1896

Place of Birth: Šeteniai, Kaunas County, Lithuania

Date of Death: 30-Apr-1991

Profession: politician, diplomat

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Juozas Urbšys (February 29, 1896 – April 30, 1991) was a prominent interwar Lithuanian diplomat, the last head of foreign affairs in independent interwar Lithuania, and a translator.
He served in the military between 1916 and 1922, afterwards joining the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 1938 Urbšys was named its head and served in this position until Lithuania's occupation in 1940.
Urbšys was imprisoned by the Soviet authorities in 1940 and deported to Siberia, where he spent the next 13 years in various prisons.
Urbšys died in 1991, having lived long enough to see Lithuania's independence restored, and was buried in Petrašiunai Cemetery, Kaunas.