Jan Hus

Jan Hus

male, deceased (1415)
Jan Hus (alternative spellings John Hus, Jan Huss, John Huss) (c. 1370 Husinec (Prachatice District), Bohemia - July 6, 1415 Konstanz, Germany) was...
Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera

male, 80 years old
Milan Kundera (born April 1, 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) is a Czech-born writer who has written books in both Czech and...

Karel Čapek

male, deceased (1938)
Karel Čapek (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) was one of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. A Nobel Prize nominee (19...
Josef Jungmann

Josef Jungmann

male, deceased (1847)
Josef Jungmann was a Czech poet and linguist, and a leading figure of the Czech National Revival. Together with Josef Dobrovský, he is considered t...
John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe

male, deceased (1384)
John Wycliffe (mid-1320s – 31 December 1384) was an English theologian and an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th ce...
Jaroslav Foglar

Jaroslav Foglar

male, deceased (1999)
Jaroslav Foglar was a famous Czech author who wrote many novels about young Boy Scouts and their adventures in nature and dark city streets. While...

Luboš Motl

male, 36 years old
Lubos Motl, in Czech Luboš Motl is a Czech theoretical physicist who works on string theory and conceptual problems of quantum gravity. Motl was b...

Helena Vondráčková

female
Helena Vondráčková is a Czech singer whose career has spanned five decades. Remarkably Vondrackova remained popular after Czechoslovakia's tra...
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

male, deceased (1378)
Charles IV (German: "Karl IV", Czech: "Karel IV.", Hungarian: "IV. Károly"; 14 May 1316 - 29 November 1378), born Wenceslaus (Václav), of the Ho...

Ludvík Vaculík

male, 83 years old
Ludvík Vaculík is a Czech writer and journalist. A prominent samizdat writer, he is most famous as the author of the "Two Thousand Words" ma...