1936 - 2011
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, Václav Havel ranks 116 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1906 - 1989
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 110
1899 - 1977
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 111
1898 - 1936
HPI: 75.99
Rank: 112
1797 - 1851
HPI: 75.95
Rank: 113
1431 - 1463
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 114
254 BC - 184 BC
HPI: 75.88
Rank: 115
1936 - 2011
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 116
1839 - 1907
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 117
1776 - 1822
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 118
1925 - 1970
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 119
1817 - 1862
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 120
1844 - 1896
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 121
1824 - 1895
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 122
Among people born in 1936, Václav Havel ranks 4. Before 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 5. Before 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.
1936 - Present
HPI: 89.75
Rank: 1
1936 - 2023
HPI: 76.49
Rank: 2
1936 - Present
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 3
1936 - 2011
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 4
1936 - 2008
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 5
1936 - Present
HPI: 72.95
Rank: 6
1936 - Present
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 7
1936 - Present
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 8
1936 - Present
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 9
1936 - Present
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 10
1936 - 1994
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 11
1936 - 1988
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 12
1955 - 2011
HPI: 85.63
Rank: 1
1942 - 2011
HPI: 82.87
Rank: 2
1941 - 2011
HPI: 79.58
Rank: 3
1957 - 2011
HPI: 77.69
Rank: 4
1936 - 2011
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 5
1932 - 2011
HPI: 74.78
Rank: 6
1912 - 2011
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 7
1941 - 2011
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 8
1940 - 2011
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 9
1926 - 2011
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 10
1927 - 2011
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 11
1926 - 2011
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 12
Among people born in Czechia, Václav Havel ranks 12 out of 973. Before 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).
1592 - 1670
HPI: 79.89
Rank: 6
1908 - 1974
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 7
1824 - 1884
HPI: 78.38
Rank: 8
1859 - 1938
HPI: 77.74
Rank: 9
1929 - 2023
HPI: 77.72
Rank: 10
1875 - 1926
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 11
1936 - 2011
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 12
1316 - 1378
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 13
1875 - 1951
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 14
1932 - 2018
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 15
1860 - 1939
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 16
1890 - 1938
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 17
1350 - 1393
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 18
Among writers born in Czechia, Václav Havel ranks 3. Before 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).
1929 - 2023
HPI: 77.72
Rank: 1
1875 - 1926
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 2
1936 - 2011
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 3
1890 - 1938
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 4
1883 - 1923
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 5
1884 - 1968
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 6
1914 - 1997
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 7
1896 - 1944
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 8
1890 - 1945
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 9
1874 - 1936
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 10
1901 - 1986
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 11
1903 - 1943
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 12