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1936 – 2011Vaclav Havel (1936-2011)Died 18 December 2011, aged 75The Czech playwright and dissident led the Velvet Revolution that ended communist rule in Czechoslovakia in 1989 and became the country's first post-communist president. He later served as the first president of the Czech Republic after the country split from Slovakia. He died at his country home in the Czech Republic.