The language of the Hattusa tablets was eventually deciphered by a Czech linguist, Bedřich Hrozný ( 1879 – 1952 ), who on 24 November 1915 announced his results in a lecture at the Near Eastern Society of Berlin.

Czech linguist Václav Machek proposes Slovak verb " vrepiť sa " ( stick to, thrust into ), or its hypothetical anagram " vperiť sa " ( in Czech, archaic verb " vpeřit " means " to thrust violently ") as an etymological background, and thus translates " upír " as " someone who thrusts, bites ".

* May 6 – Bedřich Hrozny ´, Czech orientalist and linguist ( d. 1952 )

The following year, with František's approval, he enrolled at Prague's Academic Grammar School under Josef Jungmann, a distinguished poet and linguist who was a leading figure in the movement for Czech national revival.

Bedřich ( Friedrich ) Hrozný (; May 6, 1879 – December 12, 1952 ) was a Czech orientalist and linguist.

Henry Kučera ( 15 February 1925 – 20 February 2010 ), born Jindřich Kučera, was a Czech linguist who was a pioneer in corpus linguistics and linguistic software.

Vilém Mathesius ( 3 August 1882, Pardubice – 12 April 1945, Prague ) was a Czech linguist and literary historian, a scholar of English and Czech literature.

Among his teachers belonged the leading Czech linguist and writer Josef Jungmann and the playwright Václav Kliment Klicpera.

* Josef Beneš ( 1902-1984 ), Czech linguist.

The instigator of the circle and its first president was the Czech linguist Vilém Mathesius ( President of PLC until his death in 1945 ).

" In the late 20th century, English translations of the Circle's seminal works were published by the Czech linguist Josef Vachek in several collections.

It was devised by Croatian linguist Ljudevit Gaj in 1835, based on Jan Hus's Czech alphabet.

In the sixteenth century, the town was an important centre for the Unity of the Brethren ; Ivančice was home to Jan Blahoslav, bishop of the brethren and Czech linguist.

* Vilém Mathesius ( 1882, Pardubice-1945 ), Czech linguist

Ladislav Zgusta ( 20 March 1924 – 27 April 2007 ) was a Czech – American historical linguist and lexicographer, who wrote one of the first textbooks on lexicography.

* 1926 – Frank Daniel, Czech writer, director, and teacher ( d. 1996 )

* 1926 – Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer ( d. 1995 )

* 1905 – Jan Werich, Czech actor, playwright and writer ( d. 1980 )

* 1986 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel laureate ( b. 1901 )

* 1919 – Heda Margolius Kovály, Czech writer and translator ( d. 2010 )

* In 1970, Czech writer Ludvík Vaculík made many references to " A Descent into the Maelström " as well as " The Black Cat " in his novel The Guinea Pigs.

* September 23 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( died 1986 )

* October 5 – Václav Havel, Czech playwright, writer and politician ( d. 2011 )

* May 17 – Lenka Reinerová, Czech writer ( d. 2008 )

* April 12 – Július Tomin, Czech writer known for promoting Interlingua ( d. 2003 )

* April 30 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech writer ( d. 1923 )

* January 10 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1901 )

** Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech naturalistic writer and journalist ( d. 1927 )

* January 3 – Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer ( b. 1883 )

* November 15 – Comenius, Czech writer ( b. 1592 )

** Karel Havlíček Borovský, Czech politician and writer ( b. 1821 )

* March 28 – Comenius, Czech teacher and writer ( died 1670 )

Karel Čapek () ( January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938 ) was a Czech writer of the 20th century.

Czech writer Arnošt Lustig recounts in his book 3x18 that Joseph Heller told him that he would never have written Catch-22 had he not first read The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek.

Ferdinand Peroutka ( February 6, 1895 – April 20, 1978 ) was a Czech journalist and writer.

Jaroslav Hašek (; April 30, 1883 – January 3, 1923 ) was a Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist best known for his novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures, which has been translated into sixty languages.

Bohumil Hrabal () ( 28 March 1914, Brno – 3 February 1997, Prague ) was a Czech writer, regarded as one of the best writers of the 20th century.

In September 1925, he spent one year at a grammar school in Brno ( now Gymnázium třída Kapitána Jaroše, which was later attended by another famous Czech writer, Milan Kundera ).

Some of the comments indicate editorial insertions (“ as a Czech writer I feel connected to the Czech people, with its Socialist past and future added ”).

The parameter is named after Vincenc Strouhal, a Czech physicist who experimented in 1878 with wires experiencing vortex shedding and singing in the wind.

* Vincenc František Faltis ( b. 1856 ) – Czech conductor

The dimensionless parameter fd / V is known as the Strouhal number and is named after the Czech physicist, Vincenc Strouhal ( 1850 – 1922 ) who first investigated the steady humming or singing of telegraph wires in 1878.