Stjepan Filipović, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stjepan Filipović

Yugoslav Partisan

Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1916

Place of Birth: Opuzen, Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia

Date of Death: 22-May-1942

Profession: partisan, resistance fighter

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Stjepan Filipovic (27 January 1916 – 22 May 1942) was a Yugoslav communist who led the Kolubara Company of the Valjevo Partisan Detachment during the 1941 Partisan uprising. He was captured and executed in 1942 in Valjevo.
The photo of him taken shortly before the execution has become a symbol of resistance against fascism in the Second World War, and is exhibited in the United Nations building in New York.
He was proclaimed People's Hero of Yugoslavia in 1949.