Antonín Novotný
Antonín Josef Novotný was a Czechoslovak politician, known as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968. An ardent hardliner, Novotný was forced to yield the reins of power to Alexander Dubček during the short-lived reform movement of 1968.
10 December 1904
Born on the same birth day (10 December): Anna Jesień • Chris Bury • Cornelia Funke • Dušan Bajević • Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis • Michael Clarke Duncan • Olivier Messiaen • Pierre Louÿs • Rasul Guliyev • Victor McLaglen • Wayne D. Anderson • Yang Jianping
Born in the same month (December 1904): Albert Norden • Alejo Carpentier • Clarence Nash • Dmitry Kabalevsky • Edgar Moon • George Stevens • Gerhard Herzberg • Joseph M. Juran • Kuvempu • Marge (cartoonist) • Paul Cadmus • René Bonnet • Robert Livingston (actor) • Spud Davis • Virginia Coffey • Yevgenia Ginzburg • Ève Curie