Jovan "Jovo" Kapičić, born Jovan Kapa, (Cyrillic: Јован Јово Капичић); 2 September 1919 – 9 December 2013) was a Yugoslav

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and post-war communist politician.''Narodni heroji Jugoslavije''. Belgrade: Mladost, 1975 He was awarded the Order of the People's Hero on 10 July 1950.

Early and personal life

Kapičić was born on 2 September 1919 in the Italian city of

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where the

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authorities had set up a large base for the Italian-supported exiled soldiers of the Royal Montenegrin Army following their unsuccessful 1919 Christmas Uprising against the

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. Jovo's father Milo Kapa was born in Ugnji near

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, Montenegro, and he completed a theology degree. Later he was a theology professor and in 1918, he became a '' komita'' and joined the Montenegrin Federalist Party. Along with Jovo, Milo had two more sons (Pavle and Vlado) and a daughter Anka. Jovo was also an Ambassador of

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in People's Republic of Hungary in 1956 after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.Jovo joined

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in 1936.He participated in Demonstrations in Yugoslavia of 1941 in Belgrade. Jovo's son Dragan is a retired basketball player and his grandson

Stefan Kapičić Stefan Kapičić (; born 1 December 1978) is a Serbian actor best known for his role of Colossus in ''Deadpool'' (2016) and ''Deadpool 2'' (2018). He is also one of three members of the Council for Film Industry of Montenegro. Early life Kapič ...

is an actor.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kapicic, Jovo 1919 births 2013 deaths People from Gaeta Montenegrin communists Yugoslav communists Yugoslav Partisans members Generals of the Yugoslav People's Army Recipients of the Order of the People's Hero Burials in Montenegro Yugoslav expatriates in Italy