Věra Chytilová

Věra Chytilová was an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave film Sedmikrásky (Daisies). Her subsequent films screened at international film festivals, including Vlčí bouda (1987), which screened at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989), which screened at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival, and The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992), which screened at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. For her work, she received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Medal of Merit and the Czech Lion award.

2 February 1929

Born on the same birth date (2 February 1929): George Band • John Henry Holland • Sheila Matthews Allen • Waldemar Kmentt

Born on the same birth day (2 February): Adam Christopher • Albert Sidney Johnston • Alexander Atabekian • Constantine Papadakis • Curtis Lazar • George Band • George Hardwick • Gregory Mertens • Jan Drozdowski • John of Leiden • JuJu Chan • Kan Mi-youn • Newbold Morris • Oleguer Presas • Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav • Roger Williamson • Stoyanka Mutafova • Svetozar Gligorić • Vladimir Voskoboinikov

Born in the same month (February 1929): Alejandro Jodorowsky • Djalma Santos • Fred Sinowatz • Hayden Fry • Jack Gibson (rugby league) • Jacques Deray • James Hong • Jerry Adler • John Henry Holland • Lou Whittaker • Neil Johnston • Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow • Patricia Routledge • Sheila Matthews Allen • Waldemar Kmentt