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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. [1] [2] 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.
Grave of Václav Havel. Notable burials here include the geographer Víťazoslav Cintula, [5] the novelist Jaroslav Foglar, the composer Julius Fučík, the sculptor Otto Gutfreund, President Emil Hácha, [6] President Václav Havel's ashes, [7] writers Jan Karafiát [8] and Egon Kisch, the painter Jakub Schikaneder, children's writer Karel Václav Rais, and historian and writer Zikmund Winter.
Tribute to Václav Havel (Czech: Pocta Václavu Havlovi) was an event held in memory of Václav Havel, the last Czechoslovak and the first Czech President, writer, playwright and human rights activist. The concert took place in Lucerna Music Bar in Prague on 23 December 2011, five days after the death of Havel.
Havel's Place is a public art project, which creates a series of memorial places dedicated to the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel. The installation consists of two garden chairs around a round table, usually with a tree going through its middle.
(Birth–Death) Ethnicity Election Term of office Party Took office ... Václav Havel (1936–2011) Czech: 1989 1990: 29 December 1989 20 July 1992 2 years, 204 days OF:
21st anniversary of the Velvet Revolution – former President Václav Havel (right, with flowers) at the Memorial at Národní Street in Prague. The victory of the revolution was topped off by the election of rebel playwright and human rights activist Václav Havel as President of Czechoslovakia on 29 December 1989. The event was highly ...
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Following the death of the last Czechoslovak (and the first Czech) president, Václav Havel, on December 18, 2011, both the Czech Republic and Slovakia observed a day of national mourning. During the funeral mass in Prague 's St. Vitus Cathedral , prayers were recited in an equal ratio in Czech and Slovak .