Václav Havel (1936–2011) was verified through Britannica, The Guardian, and BBC News. Britannica identifies him as a Czech playwright, poet, dissident, Charter 77 figure, repeated prisoner, president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, and leader in Civic Forum during the Velvet Revolution. The Guardian obituary confirms he died in 2011 aged 75 after long illness and frames his legacy as playwright, prisoner, president, and moral voice against totalitarianism. BBC confirms his death on 18 December 2011 and his path from dissident playwright to president in 1989. His worth is the proof that civic language, art, and conscience can move from prison cell to public architecture.