Miroslav Žbirka
Miroslav Žbirka (21 October 1952 – 10 November 2021) was a Slovak pop music singer and songwriter. He performed in Slovak, Czech, and English (he had a Slovak father and an English mother). Žbirka was born in Bratislava. In the late 1970s, he co-founded two Czechoslovak pop music bands Modus and Limit. He lived and worked in Prague. In 1982, he received the annual Zlatý slavík award for the best male singer in Czechoslovakia. After the dividing of Czechoslovakia, he repeated this achievement in the Slovak annual Slávik Awards, coming number one in the annual end of year  charts in 2002, 2004 and 2005. He had some performances with Jon Anderson in 2012. Asteroid 5895 Žbirka, discovered by Czech astronomer Zdeňka Vávrová in 1982, was named in his honor. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 August 2019 (). Žbirka died in Prague on 10 November 2021, from pneumonia.