Elena Ceaușescu

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthday

1916-01-07

Deathday

1989-12-25

Place of Birth

Petrești, Romania

Elena Ceaușescu

Biography

Elena Ceaușescu (born Lenuța Petrescu; 7 January 1916 [O.S. 25 December 1915] – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician, the wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania. She was also the Deputy Prime Minister of Romania. Following the Romanian Revolution in 1989, she was executed alongside her husband on 25 December.