Born-5 October 1936
Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Died-18 December 2011 (aged 75)
Hrádecek, Czech Republic
Political party-Independent
Civic Forum (1989–1993)
Spouse(s)-Olga Šplíchalová (1964–1996; her death)
Dagmar Veškrnová (1997–2011; his death)
Alma mater-Czech Technical University in Prague
Faculty of Theatre
Profession-Playwright.
Havel was a poet, playwright and essayist who became the last president of Czechoslovakia, and then the Czech Republic's first president, overseeing the country's transition to democracy and a free-market economy.He spent four and a half years in prison for his anti-Communist activism before becoming a leader of the non-violent Velvet Revolution in 1989.