About Vaso Radić
Lived 1923 – 2011 (aged 88). Vaso Radić was a politician and association football.
Vasilije "Vaso" Radić (; 14 October 1923 – 18 December 2011) was a Bosnian and Yugoslav politician and former Partisan who served as the 21st mayor of Sarajevo from 1963 to 1965 and Yugoslav general consul in West Germany from 1967 to 1969. After retiring he worked as an author and publicist.
Radić was a holder of the Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941 He was Sarajevo's assembly president once again from 1972 until 1973. As an ethnic Serb living in Sarajevo for most of his life, Radić also lived through the Siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1996.
He died on 18 December 2011, aged 88. He had 5 siblings; Gojko, Manojlo, Kristina, Ljubica and Miroslav. Radić was buried on 21 December at the Bare Cemetery in Sarajevo.
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Vaso Radić was born on 14 October 1923 in Breza.
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Vaso Radić died on 18 December 2011 in Sarajevo.
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Vaso Radić was a politician and association football.
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