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Events in the year2023 in theCzech Republic.

• President –Miloš Zeman (until March 8);Petr Pavel onwards
• Prime Minister –Petr Fiala

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• 9 January – Prague’s municipal court acquittedAndrej Babiš of charges of subsidy fraud.^[1]
• 13 January –2023 Czech presidential election:Czechs elect theirpresident. IncumbentMiloš Zeman is not eligible to run for re-election, as he isterm limited.^[2][3]
• 27 January –2023 Czech presidential election:Czechs vote in the second round of thepresidential election.^[4]
• 28 January – TheCzech Statistical Office reports that formerNATO Military Committee chairPetr Pavel has been electedPresident of the Czech Republic, defeating formerprime ministerAndrej Babiš with 58 percent of the votes.^[5]

• 7 June – The2023 UEFA Europa Conference League final, held in Prague'sFortuna Arena, sees English sideWest Ham United defeat Italian clubFiorentina.^[6]

• 21 December –2023 Prague shooting: 14 people are killed and 25 others injured during amass shooting atCharles University inPrague. The perpetrator, a student at the university,kills himself after the shooting.^[7]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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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