
Karel Čapek
Birthday: January 9, 1890 in Malé Svatoňovice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Deathday: December 25, 1938
Karel Čapek was a Czech writer of the early 20th century. He had multiple roles throughout his career, including playwright, dramatist, essayist, publisher, literary reviewer, photographer and art critic. Nonetheless, he is best known for his science fiction including his novel War with the Newts an...d the play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which introduced the word robot