The Dominican Republic’s official record of an Anatolian-Greek-born American surgeon’s last day. Constantine’s death certificate extract — issued by the Junta Central Electoral, Dirección Nacional de Registro del Estado Civil of the Dominican Republic under Article 99 of Law No. 659 of July 17, 1944. Document number 4164965. Death registered as No. 31759, Book 64, Folio 259, Year 1980. The extract itself was issued January 12, 2006 in Santo Domingo by civil registry official Luis Fernando Pérez Cuevas.
Full body translated from Spanish
“That on the eighth (8) day of November of the year nineteen-eighty (1980), at 1:30 in the morning, died, CONSTANTINE LAZARE JEANNOPOULOS, according to the certificate of Dr. Vinicio Calventi, of cause of Uremic Cardiac Insufficiency, Chronic Renal Failure. At his domicile at Calle Arzobispo Meriño No. 154, Santo Domingo. North American nationality, 64 years of age. Marital status married to Mrs. Sophie Jakowska. Parents not specified.”
What the certificate records
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Date of death | November 8, 1980, 1:30 AM |
| Cause of death | Uremic Cardiac Insufficiency / Chronic Renal Failure (kidney failure with cardiac involvement) |
| Certifying physician | Dr. Vinicio Calventi |
| Place of death | His home — Calle Arzobispo Meriño No. 154, Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo |
| Nationality at death | ”Norteamericana” — North American (US) |
| Age | 64 years |
| Marital status | Married to Sophie Jakowska |
| Parents | Not specified on the certificate |
A note on the recorded US nationality
The Dominican civil registry recorded Constantine’s nationality as “Norteamericana” — the operative document at hand at the time of registration would have been his US passport. This does not constitute evidence that he had renounced Greek citizenship — the registrar simply recorded the nationality on the document he held. Constantine’s Mytilene Μητρώο Αρρένων folio 35 registry entry remained in the Greek municipality’s records, and was the subject of administrative action by the Greek Nomarchy in 1955 (per the 1978 US Embassy Athens letter). Under Greek law, Greek citizenship is not extinguished by a civil-registry entry in another country.
About Dr. Vinicio Calventi
The certifying physician was Dr. Vinicio Calventi, a Dominican Republic surgeon. An earlier draft of this record had associated him with the Dominican Vice-Presidency; that was incorrect — Constantine’s daughter Marie Helene “Penny” Jeannopoulos directly corrected the record in May 2026: “The doctor that issued Daddy’s death certificate was never vice presidente of the country.”
The Arzobispo Meriño address
Calle Arzobispo Meriño No. 154 sits in the Zona Colonial of Santo Domingo — the oldest European-settled urban core in the Americas. This was Constantine’s home from his late-1970s move to Santo Domingo together with Sophie (their daughter Penny moved separately in 1980, and confirmed in May 2026 that her parents moved together, correcting an earlier framing on this record).
