As a commentator he became very influential, standing on the position of the " Castle " ( group of President Masaryk ) and criticizing both communists and the Right represented by the national-democratic party of the first Czechoslovak prime minister Karel Kramář.

* Karel Kramář ( 1860 – 1937 ), politician and first Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia ( November 1918-July 1919 )

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In 1915, he was imprisoned and sentenced to death ( together with Karel Kramář ).

* February 27 – WWII – Battle of the Java Sea: An allied ( ABDA ) task force of 14 vessels under Dutch command, trying to stem a Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies, is defeated by a 19 vessel Japanese task force in the Java Sea ; 2. 300 sailors die, including the commander, admiral Karel Doorman ; Japanese attain naval hegemony in East-Asia

* Karel Miry-Brigitta ( opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on June 27 in Ghent )

Jean-Jacques De Gucht, the son of former minister and current European Commissioner for Trade Policy Karel De Gucht, was placed at the top of the electoral list for the Flemish Liberals in the 2007 federal elections for the East Flanders region and subsequently appointed to the Senate at age 27.

Karel Lodewijk Georgette Emmerence De Gucht ( born 27 January 1954 ) is a Belgian politician who has been the European Commissioner for Trade since 2010.

Karel Cornelia Constantijn Dillen ( 16 October 1925, Antwerp – 27 April 2007, Schilde ) was a Flemish politician and a Flemish nationalist.

On 27 February, the main American-British-Dutch-Australian Command ( ABDACOM ) naval force, under Admiral Karel Doorman – a Dutch officer – steamed northeast from Surabaya to intercept an imperial Japanese navy invasion fleet.

* February 27 – Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, composer ( b. 1644 )

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

" Though he suffered all his life from the condition spondyloarthritis, Karel Čapek died of double pneumonia on December 25, 1938 shortly after part of Czechoslovakia was annexed by Nazi Germany following the so-called Munich Agreement.

* Jan Pieter Karel van Eechoud ( 29 December 1949-8 February 1950 ) ( Acting )

William VI of Orange, instated on 2 December 1813 as " Sovereign Prince " by acclamation, and only accepting " under the safeguard of a free constitution, assuring your freedom against possible future abuses ", had first appointed a number of men of good standing as electors and these approved the constitution, written by a commission headed by Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp.

* Karel Miry-De kleine patriot ( opera in 4 acts, libretto by J. Hoste, premiered on December 23 in Brussels )

* Karel Miry-Een engel op wacht ( opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered on December 8 in Brussels )

It was first performed by Karel Strakatý at the Estates Theatre in Prague on December 21, 1834.

Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, also known as the Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton ( 11 December 185014 May 1922 ) was the Lanarkshire-born, Scottish-German-French great-grandmother of Prince Rainier III of Monaco, the fashion designer Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, the socialite and actress Princess Ira von Fürstenberg and the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Karel Schwarzenberg.

Jan Ruml resigned as leader in December 1999 and the following February the party elected Karel Kühnl as the new leader after receiving 193 votes compared to 87 for Vladimír Mlynář.

* Karel Čapek ( January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938 ) Czech writer

Karel Urbánek ( born 22 March 1941 in Bojkovice, Moravia ) was the last Communist leader of Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution, between November and December 1989.

75 ( July – December 1923 ) Djuna Barnes, Pierre Bonnard, Van Wyck Brooks, Karel Čapek, Adolphe Dehn, André Derain, Roger Fry, Alyse Gregory, Knut Hamsun, Manuel Komroff, Alfred Kreymborg, Julius Meier-Graefe, Marie Laurencin, George Moore, Paul Morand, Luigi Pirandello, Bertrand Russell, Edward Sapir, Georges Seurat, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, Edmund Wilson, Virginia Woolf

Jan Křesadlo () was the primary pseudonym used by Václav Jaroslav Karel Pinkava () ( December 9, 1926 in Prague-August 13, 1995 in Colchester ), a Czech psychologist who was also a prizewinning novelist and poet.

Karel Josef Barvitius ( born Karel Brodský on December 9, 1864 Německý Brod-March 23, 1937, Prague ) was publisher of books and music.

Karel Anděl ( December 28, 1884 – March 17, 1947 ) was a Czech astronomer and selenographer.

* 1860 – Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist ( d. 1927 )

* 1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter ( d. 2006 )

One of the first prominent countercult apologists was Jan Karel van Baalen ( 1890 – 1968 ), an ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church in North America.

* 1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R. U. R., that coined the term " robot ".

* 1756 – Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Czech composer ( d. 1785 )

* Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Karel V, Charles Quint ( 1500 – 1558 )

* Karel van de Woestijne, writer ( 1878 – 1929 )

* 1990 – Karel Abraham, Czech motorcycle racer

* 1926 – Karel Reisz, English director ( d. 2002 )

Karel van het Reve ( 19 May 1921, Amsterdam – 4 March 1999, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature.

Karel Hynek Mácha () ( 16 November 1810 – 6 November 1836 ) was a Czech romantic poet.

Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.

* 1949 – Karel Lismont, Belgian athlete

* 1999 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, translator and literary historian ( b. 1921 )

* 1836 – Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet ( b. 1810 )

* February 8 – Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer ( b. 1903 )

* February 28 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral ( sinking ship ) ( b. 1889 )

* September 17 – Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer ( d. 1984 )

* March 30 – Karel Poborsky, Czech Republic football player

* April 23 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral ( d. 1942 )

* April 25 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter ( died 2006 )

* May 19 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer ( died 1999 )

* Karel Bonaventura Buquoy of France ( 1571 – 1621 ), general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire