Legendary Czech climber and mountaineer Frantisek Kutta died after a long disease on November 18th 2004 at his age of 81. He had funeral on November 21st in Prague,

according to a report on Czech version of this site Lezec.cz, sourced by Chroust (Vladimir Prochazka).
Frantisek Kutta was the author of plenty of the famous routes e.g. in  High Tatras, Slovakia(Kutta´s plates on Batizovsky Peak), in Czech limestone (Srbsko), sandstone (Susky,...) or other areas.
He wrote some handbooks about climbing in the mid 40´s, too.