Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright-turned-president and the leading figure in the peaceful revolution that toppled communism in Czechoslovakia, has died. He was 75. His office said Havel died ...
REUTERS - Former Czech President Vaclav Havel has died after a long period of illness. He was 75. Following are key events in the life of the former president: - Born into a wealthy ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Vaclav Havel's Legacy, Through The Lenses Of Friends
Friends of former Czech President Vaclav Havel plan to mark his 80th birthday on October 5th with several memorial events. Havel, who died in 2011, went from being a jailed playwright to ...
Los Angeles Times: Vaclav Havel dies at 75; Czech leader of ’89 ‘Velvet Revolution’
Vaclav Havel, the former dissident playwright who led Czechoslovakia’s 1989 “Velvet Revolution” against communism and then served as his country’s president, died Sunday. He was 75. Havel, a former ...
Christian Science Monitor: Vaclav Havel: Moral beacon and leader of Velvet Revolution
It is hard to imagine a contemporary political leader other than Vaclav Havel whom one would take seriously as a philosopher. (In the list of 14 "20th century political thinkers" in this book series, ...
The great anti-communist dissident, writer, and politician Vaclav Havel is dead at the age of 75. From Matt Welch's great 2003 profile, Velvet President: Like Orwell, Havel was a fiction writer whose ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Vaclav Havel, the former Czech president who died Saturday at 75, was ...