deaths
September 20, 1979
Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1895)
Ludvík Svoboda
Ludvík Svoboda was a Czech general and politician. He fought in both World Wars, for which he was regarded as a national hero, and he later served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1975.
List of presidents of Czechoslovakia
The president of Czechoslovakia was the head of state of Czechoslovakia, from the creation of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 until the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic on 1 January 1993.