Fran�ois Boziz� Yangouvonda is a Central African politician who was the President of the Central African Republic from 2003 to 2013. Boziz� rose to become a high-ranking army officer in the 1970s, under the rule of Jean-B�del Bokassa. After Bokassa was ousted, Boziz� served in the government as Minister of Defense from 1979 to 1981 and as Minister of Information from 1981 to 1982. He participated in a failed 1982 coup attempt against President Andr� Kolingba and subsequently fled the country. Years later, he served as Army Chief of Staff under President Ange-F�lix Patass�, but he began a rebellion against Patass� in 2001. Boziz�'s forces captured the capital, Bangui, in March 2003, while Patass� was outside the country, and Boziz� took power, ushering in a transitional period of government. He won the March?May 2005 presidential election in a second round of voting, and he was re-elected in the January 2011 presidential election, winning the vote in the first round. In December 2012, the CAR was plunged into an uprising by rebel forces who condemned the Boziz� government for not honoring peace agreements after the Central African Republic Bush War in 2007. 

October 14th, 1946 in Mouila (Age 78)