Konstantinos Alexandrou Karamanlis, commonly known as Kostas Karamanlis, was Prime Minister of Greece from 2004 to 2009. He was also president of the right-conservative New Democracy party, founded by his uncle Konstantinos Karamanlis. Karamanlis served as Prime Minister for two consecutive terms, winning the 7 March 2004 parliamentary elections and the 16 September 2007 parliamentary elections. However, he asked for mid-term general elections to be held on 4 October 2009. The main reason for the mid-term election was the narrow majority his party enjoyed in Parliament that could not guarantee a stable government needed to handle the economic crisis and its repercussions. On 5 October 2009, Karamanlis conceded defeat in the Greek legislative election and resigned as president of the New Democracy party after 12 years as its leader, after an election victory for the opposition PASOK. [More at Wikipedia]

September 14th, 1956 in Athens (Age 68)