Jan Palach
1948 – 1969
Czechoslovakian

Student and political protestor. He burned himself to protest the 1968 Russian invasion.

Contemporaries
1883–1954Andrey Vyshinsky
1879–1953Joseph Stalin
1892–1954Esther Singer
Born 1948Natan Shcharansky
1890–1950Vaslav Nijinsky
1895–1958Imre Nagy
Born 1963Gary Kasparov
1883–1957Nikos Kazantzakis
1869–1955Calouste Gulbenkian
1899–1953Lavrenti Beria
1874–1948Nikolai Berdyaev
1865–1959Bernard Berenson
Born 1948Mikhail Baryshnikov
1889–1966Anna Akhmatova