who is vaclav havel
December 18, 2011. HrÃ¡deÄek, Czech Republic. VÃ¡clav Havel, (born October 5, 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]âdied December 18, 2011, HrÃ¡deÄek, Czech Republic) Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989â92) and of the Czech Republic (1993â2003).