Jan Palach

Jan Palach
Palach's student ID photo
Born	(1948-08-11)11 August 1948 Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Died	19 January 1969(1969-01-19) (aged 20) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Cause of death	Burns from self-immolation
Resting place	Olšany Cemetery
Nationality	Czech
Alma mater	Charles University
Occupation	student
Known for	self-immolation after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia
Awards	Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (in memoriam)

Jan Palach (Czech pronunciation: [jan ˈpalax]; 11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969) was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation was a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies.