Jan Opletal (1st 1st 1915 - 11, 11 1939) - student of the Medical Faculty of Charles University, which was October 28, 1939 mortally wounded during anti-Nazi demonstration. His funeral turned into a massive demonstration, which resulted were closed Czech universities. More than a thousand students ended up in a concentration camp.

Jan Opletal was born in Lhota nad Moravia Olomouc. In 1934 he graduated from grammar school in Litovli. Graduated from military service in the cavalry in Prague and in 1936 began studying medicine at the Medical Faculty of Charles University.

On the anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic on 28 October 1939 student joined the anti-Nazi demonstration which took place in Prague. The Nazis were violently suppressed. Already during transport to hospital died one of the young participants V�clav Sedl��ek. In the belly of a revolver was also hit by Jan Opletal who died of his injuries on November 11.

At his funeral four days later arrived thousands of students and the funeral procession grew into another large demonstration. Occupying regime again responded with violence: closed Czech universities and over a thousand students sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Nine of them were November 17, 1939 in Prague shot. Seventeenth November was in 1941 in London declared the International Day studenstva.