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Historical Events
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0932-03-04 - Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1539-02-19 - Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled
1741-12-27 - Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
1915-10-29 - Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia
1915-11-14 - Thomas Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia
1917-12-20 - Russian secret police in Czech forms under Felix Dzerzjinski
1918-08-30 - Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
1918-10-18 - Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
1918-10-28 - Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
1918-10-30 - Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state
1918-11-14 - Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president
1920-03-28 - Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia
1920-08-10 - Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
1920-08-14 - Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia
1922-10-06 - Schwebla replaces Benes govt in Czechoslavakia
1927-05-27 - Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president
1934-06-10 - Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome
1935-03-06 - Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in LA
1935-12-18 - Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1938-04-23 - Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government
1938-09-12 - Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech
1938-09-21 - Winston Churchill condemns Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia
1938-09-26 - Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land
1938-09-30 - Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
1938-10-01 - Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)
1938-10-10 - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
1938-11-21 - Nazi forces occupy western Czech & declared them German citizens
1939-03-14 - Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
1939-03-15 - Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independ
1939-03-16 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
1939-10-28 - Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia
1939-11-15 - Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
1941-11-11 - Czech premier general Eliasjarrested by nazis
1941-12-15 - Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint
1942-05-27 - Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
1942-05-28 - 1,800 Czechs murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich
1942-06-09 - Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice Czechoslovakia
1942-06-10 - Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173
1942-09-06 - Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
1944-10-06 - Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia
1944-10-18 - Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
1945-04-10 - Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)
1945-05-09 - Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
1945-06-29 - Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
1946-05-26 - Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
1947-12-10 - USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
1948-02-20 - Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
1948-02-24 - Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
1948-02-25 - Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
1948-06-07 - Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; Pres Bernes resigns
1948-06-14 - Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1949-07-15 - Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US
1950-06-26 - Pres Gottwald of Czech confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence
1951-02-26 - Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia
1952-11-20 - Slánský trials - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
1952-12-06 - Czech govt tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata
1953-03-22 - AntonínZápotockýchosen as president of Czechoslovakia
1953-12-24 - 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)
1955-05-14 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania
1957-11-19 - Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia
1960-02-28 - US wins Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4
1960-07-11 - Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
1960-11-14 - 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)
1962-06-17 - Brazil Beats Czechoslovakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago
1963-09-22 - Czechoslovakian premier Sikory deposed by Josef Lenart)
1964-06-11 - West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia
1968-01-05 - Dubcek succeeds pres Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia
1968-03-22 - Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
1968-03-30 - General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia
1968-04-08 - Czechoslovakia Cernik govt forms
1968-05-14 - Czech govt announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek
1968-08-20 - 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1968-08-21 - Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion
1968-08-21 - Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement
1968-10-16 - Czechoslovakia & Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces
1969-04-17 - Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed
1969-08-23 - France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
1970-01-28 - Lubomír Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia
1973-12-11 - West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech
1975-09-05 - Czech tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in NYC
1975-09-09 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova (18) asks for political asylum
1975-12-21 - 64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2)
1976-06-20 - Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champ
1977-01-01 - Czech intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77
1977-04-23 - Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously & only loses 10
1978-03-02 - Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
1983-07-24 - 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1)
1983-07-26 - Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28)
1983-09-06 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in NY
1984-07-22 - 22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1)
1985-01-13 - 23rd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats USA in Nagoya Japan (2-1)
1986-07-27 - 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0)
1987-12-17 - Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Husak resigns
1988-01-01 - Czech born tennis star Hana Mandikova becomes an Australian Citizen
1989-09-10 - East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czech)
1989-11-24 - Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1989-12-10 - President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns
1989-12-28 - Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czech
1989-12-29 - Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1990-02-26 - USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czech by July, 1991
Famous Birthdays
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1523-02-20 - Jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)
1525-12-01 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
1674-08-09 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
1677-02-03 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)
1684-02-16 - Bohuslav M Czernohorsky, Czech monk/composer
1684-02-16 - Bohuslav Matej Czernohorsky, Czech monk/composer
1684-02-24 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
1686-04-28 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)
1688-09-12 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)
1698-03-26 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)
1719-08-20 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
1753-08-17 - Josef Dobrovský, Czech linguist (d. 1828)
1781-10-05 - Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
1790-06-01 - Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi/learned (Ereg miliem)
1798-05-14 - Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian
1799-03-07 - Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech poet (national anthem, folk song)
1800-12-17 - Gergely Czuczor, Hung/Czech poet/translator (Great Hung dictionary)
1808-02-04 - Josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem(d. 1856)
1811-11-07 - Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Bouquet)
1841-09-08 - AntonínDvorák, Nelahozeves Czech, composer (New World Symphony)
1841-09-08 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (d. 1904)
1850-03-07 - Tomés G Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, Father/Pres of Czech (1918-35)
1854-07-03 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1860-02-21 - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (d. 1927)
1860-07-24 - Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
1865-09-20 - Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist
1867-12-22 - Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic
1869-02-07 - Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura)
1870-07-21 - Emil Orlik, Czech painter (d. 1932)
1870-12-05 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (d. 1949)
1871-09-23 - Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer
1874-01-04 - Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer (Asrael)
1879-05-06 - Bedrich Hrozny, Czech orientalist (d. 1952)
1879-12-07 - Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite)
1879-12-15 - Rudolf von Laban, Czech/German choreographer (modern dance)
1883-04-24 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Brave soldier Schweik) [or April 30]
1883-07-03 - Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika)
1884-05-28 - Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48)
1884-06-05 - Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)
1884-12-09 - Antonin Zapotocky, Czechoslovak president (Ceskoslovensky Spisouatel)
1885-04-29 - Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter)
1886-04-17 - Otto Lederer, Czechoslovakia, actor (Jazz Singer)
1886-09-14 - Jan Garrique Masaryk, Czech, statesman/minister to London (1918-35)
1887-12-17 - Josef Lada, Czech painter (d. 1957)
1888-12-29 - Joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal
1889-06-08 - Joseph L Hromadka, Czech theologist (Lenin prize 1957)
1890-01-09 - Karel Capek, Czech, writer (R U R); coined the word "robot"
1890-01-16 - Karl Freund, Czech/Austrian cameraman/director
1890-09-16 - Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Prague Czech, actor (Moon is Down, 3rd Man)
1890-11-05 - Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter (d. 1977)
1890-12-08 - Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Policka Czechoslovakia, composer (Hry o Marti)
1891-06-26 - Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/(stage)author/resistance fighter
1891-07-08 - Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Working Day)
1892-02-14 - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander (d. 1948)
1893-06-21 - Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
1894-06-08 - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist (Ogelala)
1894-06-10 - Pavel Borkovec, Czech composer (Stmivani, [Twilight])
1895-11-25 - Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician
1896-01-08 - Jaromir Weinberger, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Bird's Opera)
1896-11-23 - Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1946-53)
1898-03-07 - Jan Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer
1899-01-22 - Guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany)
1901-09-23 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel 1984)
1902-02-19 - Hugo Haas, Brno Czechoslovakia, actor/director (2 Smart People)
1902-03-28 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988)
1903-05-15 - Anny Ondra, Czechoslovakia, actress (Blackmail, Manxman)
1904-11-10 - Steven Geray, Uzhored Czechoslovakia, actor (French Line)
1905-06-19 - George Voskovec, Czech, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag)
1905-09-16 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980)
1905-10-22 - Karl Jansky, Czech, discoverer (cosmic radio emissions in 1932)
1906-11-06 - Francis Lederer, Prague Czech, actor (Diary of a Chambermaid)
1907-09-23 - Jarmila Novotna, soprano (Met Opera)/pres of Czechoslovakia (1957-68)
1907-11-21 - Charles Korvin, Czechoslovakia, actor (Berlin Express, Ship of Fools)
1908-04-05 - George Schick, Prague Czech, conductor (Chicago Symphony)
1908-04-11 - Karel Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto)
1910-01-26 - Elmar Klos, Czech director (Adrift)
1910-07-20 - Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (d. 2004)
1911-02-26 - Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia MP chairman
1911-11-28 - Václav Renč, Czech poet (d. 1973)
1911-12-14 - Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader/founder (Federal Trust)
1912-02-11 - Rudolf Firkusny, Napajedla Czechoslovakia, pianist (Julliard)
1913-01-10 - Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslavakia (1975-89)
1913-05-01 - Walter Susskind, Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor
1913-06-06 - Jiri Hajek, Czech jurist/foreign minister
1913-06-24 - John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter
1914-06-29 - Rafael Kubelik, Bychory Czechoslovakia, conductor (Cornelia Farooli)
1914-09-14 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (d. 2000)
1915-04-04 - Jan Drda, Czech writer (Nema Barikada, Mestecko Na Dlani)
1917-01-09 - Herbert Lom, Czech, actor (Pink Panther Strikes Again, Dorian Gray)
1917-01-17 - Oskar Morawetz, Svetla Czechoslovakia, composer
1917-09-28 - Vaclav Kaslik, Czechoslovakia, opera composer/conductor
1919-06-12 - Vera Hruba Ralston, Czech, actress (Dakota, Accused of Murder)
1919-07-12 - Vera Hruba Ralston, Prague Czech, actress (Dajkota) [or 6/12/1921]
1919-09-24 - Vaclav Nelhybel, Polanka Czechoslovakia, composer (Everyman)
1920-10-17 - Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels)
1921-08-07 - Karel Husa, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Trojan Women)
1921-10-12 - Jaroslav Drobny, Czech, hockey (Oly-gold-1948), tennis (Wimb-1954)
1921-11-27 - Alexander Dubcek, headed Czech Communist Party (1968-69)
1922-07-15 - Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia, journalist/dissident
1922-07-20 - Miroslav "Standa" Bares, Czech/Dutch actor/director (Billy Budd)
Famous Deaths
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1393-03-20 - Johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed
1424-10-11 - Jan Zizka, Czech (army)leader (Hussieten), dies of plague at 46
1471-02-21 - John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop
1528-11-11 - Lucas van Prague, Czech leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68
1571-11-24 - Jan Blahoslav, Czech bishop, dies at 48
1600-09-01 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
1670-11-15 - Jan A Comenius, [Komensky], Czech/Neth educator/philosopher, dies
1721-09-08 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
1730-08-31 - Gottfried Finger, Czech composer (b. 1660?)
1731-03-08 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
1738-02-15 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
1742-07-01 - Bohuslav Matej Czernohorsky, Czech monk/composer, dies at 58
1751-12-17 - Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czech master builder, dies at 62
1765-12-25 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (b. 1698)
1766-07-14 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (b. 1674)
1783-04-16 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
1836-11-05 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)
1852-08-05 - Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech slavist/poet, dies at 53
1866-09-09 - Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czech poet/translator, dies at 65
1867-10-16 - Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi (Ereg miliem), dies
1869-07-28 - Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)
1870-11-21 - Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Ruiker), dies at 69
1876-05-26 - Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian/MP, dies at 77
1881-06-13 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
1884-05-12 - Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Czech composer (2 Widows), dies at 60
1891-08-22 - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
1904-05-01 - AntonínDvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62
1904-05-01 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
1917-08-30 - Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies
1923-01-03 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Good Soldier Schweyk), dies at 39
1924-06-03 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40
1925-10-24 - Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Lusy), dies at 56
1927-11-03 - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
1928-08-12 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854)
1930-03-12 - Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (b. 1851)
1935-05-29 - Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer, dies at 61
1937-04-04 - Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic, dies at 69
1937-09-14 - Tomés G Masaryk, philosopher/pres of Czech (1918-35), dies at 87)
1937-09-14 - Tomáš Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)
1938-12-25 - Karel Čapek, Czech author (b. 1890)
1939-05-22 - Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
1939-07-14 - Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter, decorative artist (b. 1860)
1939-11-11 - Jan Opletal, Czech student, victim of Nazi violence in Prague
1942-06-01 - Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50
1942-06-18 - Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
1942-06-18 - John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies at 28
1942-08-18 - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist, dies at 48
1943-03-09 - Oskar Hêks, Czech marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz
1943-04-05 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (b. 1869)
1944-06-14 - Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist, dies at 78
1945-06-21 - Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Sinking Shadows), dies at 53
1945-08-26 - Franz Werfel, Czech/German/US poet/writer (Mirror Man), dies at 54
1947-06-28 - Stanislav K Neumann, Czech poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72
1948-03-10 - Jan Masaryk, Czech Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered
1948-03-31 - Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62
1948-04-15 - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (d. 1892)
1948-09-03 - Eduard Benesj, president Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48), dies
1949-07-18 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
1950-02-14 - Karl G Jansky, Czech discoverer of cosmic radio sources, dies at 44
1950-06-27 - Milada Horakova, Czech advocate/anti fascist, hanged
1952-12-12 - Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (b. 1879)
1953-03-14 - Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56
1957-06-21 - Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer, dies at 85
1958-07-01 - Rudolf von Laban, Czech/Ger choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78
1959-08-28 - Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Czech composer (Hry o Marti), dies at 68
1965-08-23 - John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer, dies at 67
1967-08-08 - Jaromir Weinberger, Czech/US composer (Czech Rhapsody), dies at 71
1967-08-09 - Jaromir Weinberger, Czech/US composer (Czech Rhapsody), dies
1968-08-21 - Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45
1969-01-16 - Jan Palach, protesting Soviet invasion of Czech, self immolates at 20
1969-02-25 - Jan Zajic, Czech student, self incinerates
1969-03-22 - Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Czech actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78
1969-05-17 - Joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 80
1970-11-28 - Jan Drda, Czech author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55
1972-11-12 - Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite), dies at 92
1973-04-30 - Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (b. 1911)
1973-07-03 - Charles Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto), dies at 63
1974-01-14 - Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia parliament chairman, dies at 62
1977-03-13 - Jan Patocka, Czech philosopher, dies in prison
1979-09-20 - Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician, dies at 83
1980-01-03 - Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist (b. 1910)
1980-03-25 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
1980-03-31 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
1983-10-12 - Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia journalist/dissident, dies at 61
1985-03-07 - George Schick, Czech conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at 76
1985-04-30 - George Pravda, Czechoslovakian actor (b. 1918)
1986-01-08 - Yaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84
1988-11-13 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (b. 1902)
1989-06-04 - Vaclav Kaslik, Czech opera composer/conductor, dies at 71
1991-06-11 - Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/pres (Intl Actors Federation), dies
1991-11-18 - Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78
1992-11-07 - Alexander Dubcek, premier Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies at 70
1992-11-08 - Alexander Dubcek, pres of Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies
1993-02-10 - John Grossman, Czech director (Process, Revisor), dies
1993-07-19 - Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83
1993-10-22 - Jiri Hajek, Czech lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80
1993-11-16 - Lucia Popp, Czech/Austria soprano (Vienna Opera), dies at 54
1994-02-09 - Jarmila Novotna, Czech/US soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 86
1994-04-13 - Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at 72
1994-05-16 - Vasek Simek, Czech/US actor (Green Card, Mistress), dies at 66
