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2023 in the Czech Republic
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March 19, 2025
Contents
Incumbents
Events
January
June
December
Deaths
January 2
February
March
April
May
June 2
July
August
September
October
November
December 2
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Events in the year
2023 in the
Czech Republic
.
Incumbents
President
–
Miloš Zeman
(until March 8);
Petr Pavel
onwards
Prime Minister
–
Petr Fiala
Events
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(
December 2023
)
January
9 January – Prague’s municipal court acquitted
Andrej Babiš
of charges of subsidy fraud.
[
1
]
13 January –
2023 Czech presidential election
:
Czechs
elect their
president
. Incumbent
Miloš Zeman
is not eligible to run for re-election, as he is
term limited
.
[
2
]
[
3
]
27 January –
2023 Czech presidential election
:
Czechs
vote in the second round of the
presidential election
.
[
4
]
28 January – The
Czech Statistical Office
reports that former
NATO Military Committee chair
Petr Pavel
has been elected
President of the Czech Republic
, defeating former
prime minister
Andrej Babiš
with 58 percent of the votes.
[
5
]
June
7 June – The
2023 UEFA Europa Conference League final
, held in Prague's
Fortuna Arena
, sees English side
West Ham United
defeat Italian club
Fiorentina
.
[
6
]
December
21 December –
2023 Prague shooting
: 14 people are killed and 25 others injured during a
mass shooting
at
Charles University
in
Prague
. The perpetrator, a student at the university,
kills himself
after the shooting.
[
7
]
Deaths
January
2 January –
Vasil Timkovič
, 99, World War II veteran.
[
8
]
3 January –
Petr Pavlásek
, 75, Olympic weightlifter (
1972
,
1976
).
[
9
]
4 January –
Marie Kovářová
, 95, gymnast, Olympic champion (
1948
).
[
10
]
14 January –
Zdeněk Češka
, 93, lawyer, academic and politician.
[
11
]
16 January –
Pavel Pecháček
, 82, Czech-born American journalist and manager.
[
12
]
17 January –
Stanislav Tereba
, 85, photojournalist.
[
13
]
19 January –
Kristina Taberyová
, 71, theatre and television director and humanitarian (
People in Need
).
[
14
]
20 January –
Jiří Macháně
, 82, cinematographer (
Beauty and the Beast
,
The Ninth Heart
,
Černí baroni
).
[
15
]
28 January –
Jaroslav Šedivý
, 93, politician,
minister of foreign affairs
(1997–1998).
[
16
]
Jiří Šetlík
, 93, art historian and academic.
[
17
]
31 January –
Miroslav Lacký
, 79, ice hockey player (
HC Vítkovice Ridera
,
HC Dynamo Pardubice
).
[
18
]
February
3 February –
Naďa Urbánková
, 83, singer and actress (
Closely Watched Trains
,
Larks on a String
,
Seclusion Near a Forest
).
[
19
]
6 February –
Květa Pacovská
, 94, illustrator and writer.
[
20
]
Lubomír Štrougal
, 98, politician,
prime minister of Czechoslovakia
(1970–
1988
).
[
21
]
7 February –
František Cipro
, 75, football player and manager.
[
22
]
16 February –
Jana Andrsová
, 83, ballerina and actress.
[
23
]
25 February –
Martin Pěnička
, 53, footballer.
[
24
]
March
6 March –
Josef Vojta
, 87, footballer.
[
25
]
12 March –
Karel Kaplan
, 94, historian.
[
26
]
Marek Kopelent
, 90, composer.
[
27
]
13 March –
Ernst Tugendhat
, 93, philosopher.
[
28
]
25 March –
Emil Boček
, 100, RAF pilot.
[
29
]
April
11 April –
Dana Němcová
, 89, psychologist and dissident.
[
30
]
12 April –
Ivo Babuška
, 97, Czech-born American mathematician.
[
31
]
21 April –
Mahulena Čejková
, 86, politician.
[
32
]
May
3 May –
Josef Jařab
, 85, academic and politician.
[
33
]
6 May –
Petruška Šustrová
, 75, dissident and journalist.
[
34
]
7 May –
Jan Klein
, 87, Czech-born American immunologist.
[
35
]
15 May –
Jitka Svobodová
, 81, painter and sculptor.
[
36
]
18 May –
Joseph J. Kohn
, 91, Czech-born American academic.
[
37
]
27 May –
Jan Mrvík
, 84, Olympic rower.
[
38
]
June
4 June –
Zdeněk Pouzar
, 91, mycologist.
[
39
]
6 June –
Pavel Lebeda
, 82, politician.
[
40
]
7 June –
Miroslav Řepa
, 93, architect..
[
41
]
23 June –
Zdenka Nemeškalová-Jiroudková
, 95, numismatist and archaeologist.
[
42
]
July
11 July –
Milan Kundera
, 94, Czech-born French writer (
The Joke
,
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
)
[
43
]
12 July –
Miloslav Netušil
, 77, Olympic gymnast.
[
44
]
21 July –
George Brooks
, 97, Czech-born American jeweller.
[
45
]
Miroslav Toman Sr.
, 88, businessman and politician.
[
46
]
28 July –
Jana Šulcová
, 76, actress.
[
47
]
31 July –
František Valošek
, 86, footballer.
[
48
]
August
12 August –
Petr Sommer
, 73, historian and archaeologist.
[
49
]
25 August –
Juliana Jirousová
, 79, artist and painter.
[
50
]
27 August –
Karel Holomek
, 86, politician.
[
51
]
September
4 September –
Filip Minařík
, 48, jockey.
[
52
]
5 September –
Otta Bednářová
, 96, journalist.
[
53
]
15 September –
Hana Doušová
, 74, basketball player.
[
54
]
17 September –
Petr Charvát
, 74, historian.
[
55
]
October
2 October –
Richard Salzmann
, 94, politician.
[
56
]
6 October –
Vilém Mandlík
, 87, runner.
[
57
]
7 October –
Oldřich Pelčák
, 79, cosmonaut.
[
58
]
25 October –
Zdeněk Mácal
, 87, conductor.
[
59
]
November
3 November –
Zdeněk Douša
, 76, Olympic basketball player.
[
60
]
10 November –
Pavel Kantorek
, 93, long-distance runner.
[
61
]
12 November –
Karel Schwarzenberg
, 85, politician, diplomat and statesman.
[
62
]
14 November –
Stanislav Žalud
, 91, architect and politician.
[
63
]
17 November –
Zdeněk Groessl
, 82, Olympic volleyball player.
[
64
]
20 November –
Zdena Hadrbolcová
, 86, actress.
[
65
]
21 November –
Hana Vlasáková
, 75, Olympic volleyball player.
[
66
]
24 November –
František X. Halas
, 86, historian, academic and diplomat.
[
67
]
25 November –
Ivan Havlíček
, 78, physicist and politician.
[
68
]
December
4 December –
Josef Vacenovský
, 86, footballer.
[
69
]
21 December –
Lenka Hlávková
, 49, musicologist.
[
70
]
22 December –
Eva Hauserová
, 69, journalist.
[
71
]
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