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Václav Havel

1936 - 2011

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Václav Havel (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːt͡slav ˈɦavɛl] ; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays and memoirs. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Václav Havel is the 113th most popular writer (down from 76th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 9th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Writer.

Václav Havel was a Czechoslovakian playwright, dissident, and politician who is most famous for his role in the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

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Among writers, Václav Havel ranks 113 out of 7,302. Before him are Knut Hamsun, W. Somerset Maugham, Stephen King, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Marquis de Sade, and José Saramago. After him are Anatole France, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, André Gide, Theodor Herzl, Hafez, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

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Among people born in 1936, Václav Havel ranks 3. Before him are Pope Francis, and Silvio Berlusconi. After him are Sepp Blatter, Mario Vargas Llosa, Yves Saint Laurent, Robert Redford, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Barry Barish, Amancio Ortega, Mikhail Tal, and Ismail Kadare. Among people deceased in 2011, Václav Havel ranks 5. Before him are Steve Jobs, Kim Jong-il, Muammar Gaddafi, and Wangari Maathai. After him are Elizabeth Taylor, Osama bin Laden, Otto von Habsburg, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Cesária Évora, Peter Falk, and Burhanuddin Rabbani.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Václav Havel ranks 14 out of 1,200. Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Milan Kundera (1929), Oskar Schindler (1908), and Alphonse Mucha (1860). After him are Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Edmund Husserl (1859), Jan Žižka (1360), Bertha von Suttner (1843), Kurt Gödel (1906), and Wilhelm Steinitz (1836).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Václav Havel ranks 3. Before him are Franz Kafka (1883), and Milan Kundera (1929). After him are Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Karl Kraus (1874), and Jaroslav Seifert (1901).

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