Jaroslav Hašek
Jaroslav Hašek was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian, first anarchist and then communist, and commissar of the Red Army against the Czechoslovak Legion. He is best known for his novel The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures. The novel has been translated into about 60 languages, making it the most translated novel in Czech literature.
30 April 1883
Born on the same birth date (30 April 1883): Luigi Russolo
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Born in the same month (April 1883): Aleksanteri Aava • Edvard Drabløs • Frank King (cartoonist) • Gino Severini • Henry Jameson • Ikki Kita • Julius Seljamaa • Luigi Russolo • R. P. Keigwin • Richard von Mises • Walter Huston