Vaclav Havel: 1936–2011

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Former Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel speaks during a presentation of the Vaclav Havel Library in Prague on March 1, 2011. Havel, also a playwright and famed dissident, died on Dec. 18, 2011, at age 75.

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