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Václav Havel

1936 - 2011

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Václav Havel (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslav 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Václav Havel has received more than 2,386,249 page views. His biography is available in 101 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 100 in 2019). Václav Havel is the 116th most popular writer (down from 109th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Czechia 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

Among writers, Václav Havel ranks 116 out of 5,755Before him are Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Federico García Lorca, Mary Shelley, François Villon, and Plautus. After him are Sully Prudhomme, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Yukio Mishima, Henry David Thoreau, Paul Verlaine, and Alexandre Dumas fils.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Václav Havel ranks 4Before him are Pope Francis, Silvio Berlusconi, and Sepp Blatter. After him are Yves Saint Laurent, Robert Redford, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ursula Andress, Amancio Ortega, Ken Loach, Andrei Chikatilo, and Valery Legasov. Among people deceased in 2011, Václav Havel ranks 5Before him are Steve Jobs, Muammar Gaddafi, Kim Jong-il, and Osama bin Laden. After him are Elizabeth Taylor, Otto von Habsburg, Cesária Évora, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Sathya Sai Baba, Peter Falk, and Svetlana Alliluyeva.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Václav Havel ranks 12 out of 973Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592), Oskar Schindler (1908), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Edmund Husserl (1859), Milan Kundera (1929), and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875). After him are Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Ferdinand Porsche (1875), Miloš Forman (1932), Alphonse Mucha (1860), Karel Čapek (1890), and John of Nepomuk (1350).

Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Václav Havel ranks 3Before him are Milan Kundera (1929) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875). After him are Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Milena Jesenská (1896), Franz Werfel (1890), Karl Kraus (1874), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), and Julius Fučík (1903).