Luís Severino de Almeida Cabral (11 April 1931 – 30 May 2009) was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was the first President of Guinea-Bissau. He served from 1974 to 1980, when a military coup d'état led by João Bernardo Vieira deposed him. Luís Cabral was a half-brother of Amílcar Cabral, with whom he co-founded the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) in 1956. He was born in the city of Bissau in what was then Portuguese Guinea. His parents were from the Portuguese colony of Cape Verde which consisted of several islands in the Atlantic Ocean west of Portuguese Guinea. His parents were of mixed African and European origins. Luis was sent to Cape Verde to attend primary school. After high school, he received training in accounting and was employed by a Portuguese company in Bissau city.