Born on 27 June 1929 in Radviliškis.
Died on 08.09.2018 in Tytuvėnai. Buried in Tytuvėnai cemetery.
In 1942-1948 he studied at the gymnasium in Radviliškis. In 1948 he was arrested for participation in underground activities. He was imprisoned for five years in strict regime camps in the Komi Republic. He worked in mines, cutting frozen rock for the foundations of the Inta power plant. After serving his sentence, he was deported in 1953 to the Irkutsk region, where his mother and ten-year-old sister were already living and collecting pine bark. At that time, his father, arrested in 1944, was imprisoned in Kazakhstan, in the Spasko camp. When he returned from prison, the whole family moved to the centre of the district - Tulun. Vlad graduated from the secondary evening school there, and in 1964 he studied at the Faculty of Historical Philology of the University of Irkutsk, where he graduated as a philologist and Russian language teacher. He returned to Lithuania in 1966. He worked at the Veliučionys Special Vocational Technical School, the Tytuvėnai Agricultural Technical School, the Kelme District Extramural Secondary School and the Tytuvėnai Secondary School. The name of Vladas Kalvaicis was first mentioned in the Lithuanian press in 1966, when "Šluota" published several of his epigrams. His works (mainly humorous poems, epigrams and aphorisms) were published in "Šluota", "Pergalė", "Metai", "Jaunimo gretas", "Ūkininko patarėys", Šiauliai city and county press, and in the collective collections "Velnio tuzinas" ("A Tozen of Devils") (1977), "Lietuvos epigrama ir parodija" (Lithuanian Epigrama and Parody) (1983), and "Takai prie šaltinio" ("Takai prie šaltinio") (1999).