Persons

Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)

head of the Roman Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005

Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)

Ukrainian poet, publicist and dissident

Russian writer (1943-2020)

Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist

Russian-American mathematician (1924-2016)

Russian politician and journalist

American diplomat and former Cuban prisoner

Soviet writer (1908-1994)

Soviet dissident

Israeli writer (1935-1978)

Chinese journalist