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.