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Gino Mäder was a Swiss road and track cyclist. He last rode for UCI WorldTeam Team Bahrain Victorious. Mäder died as a result of an accident during the 2023 Tour de Suisse.
Gino Mäder, Swiss cyclist (born 1997)
Shahzada Dawood was a Pakistani businessman and philanthropist.
Notable victims of the Titan submersible implosion:
Winifred Margaret Ewing was a Scottish lawyer and politician who figured prominently in the Scottish National Party.
Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician (born 1929)
Harry Max Markowitz was an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Harry Markowitz, American Nobel economist (born 1927)
Simon Findlay Crean was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 2001 to 2003. He repres…
Simon Crean, Australian trade union leader and politician (born 1949)
Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. was an American politician who served as a U.S. representative, U.S. senator, and the 85th governor of Connecticut.
Lowell Weicker, French-American politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut (born 1931)
Alan Wolf Arkin was an American actor, filmmaker and musician. In a career spanning seven decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Gold…
Alan Arkin, American actor (born 1934)
Dilano van 't Hoff was a Dutch racing driver who competed in the Formula Regional European Championship from 2021 to 2023.
Dilano van 't Hoff, Dutch race car driver (born 2004)
Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he wa…
Milan Kundera, Czech-French writer (born 1929)
Oommen Chandy was an Indian lawyer and statesman who served as the tenth chief minister of Kerala, serving from 2004 to 2006 and 2011 to 2016. He served also as the leader of the o…
Oommen Chandy, Indian politician, former Chief Minister of Kerala (born 1943)
Kevin David Mitnick was an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker. In 1995, he was arrested for various computer and communications-related crimes, and…
Kevin Mitnick, American hacker (born 1963)
Anthony Dominick Benedetto, known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetim…
Tony Bennett, American singer (born 1926)
George Maxwell Alagiah was a British newsreader, journalist and television presenter for the BBC. From 2007 until 2022, he was the presenter of the BBC News at Six and the main pre…
George Alagiah, BBC News journalist and broadcaster (born 1955)
Trevor John Francis was an English footballer who played as a forward for a number of clubs in England, the United States, Italy, Scotland and Australia. In 1979 he became Britain'…
Trevor Francis, Britain's first "£1 million football player" (born 1954)
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor, also known as Shuhada' Sadaqat, was an Irish singer, songwriter, and activist. During her musical career, which encompassed several hit records an…
Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer and musician (born 1966)
Paul Reubens was an American actor and comedian, widely known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman.
Paul Reubens, American actor and comedian (born 1952)
Dominion Voting Systems Corporation was a North American company that produced and sold electronic voting hardware and software, including voting machines and tabulating machines, …
Dominion Voting Systems agreed to a $787 million settlement with Fox News over defamation claims related to the 2020 U
Charles III is King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London
The Tanur boat accident occurred on 7 May 2023 evening, when the recreational boat Atlantic capsized in Tanur Beach in Tanur, Malappuram, Kerala, India. The incident, on a boat car…
A tourist boat capsized, killing at least 22 people in Tanur, India
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, doing business as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development …
SpaceX's Starship launched for the first time before exploding four minutes into flight
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) which coordinates responses to international public health issues and emergencies. It is head…
The World Health Organization declared the end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency
The 2023 Pakistan protests occurred after the Punjab Police attempted to arrest the former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, nearly one year after his removal from office. Th…
Pakistani protests: Riots broke out following the arrest of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan
Titan, previously named Cyclops 2, was a submersible created and operated by the American underwater tourism company OceanGate. It was the first privately owned submersible with a …
The Titan submersible imploded during a dive to the RMS Titanic wreck, killing all five people aboard
Raidió Teilifís Éireann is the Irish public service broadcaster. It produces and broadcasts programmes on television, radio and online. The radio service began on 1 January 1926, a…
Irish broadcaster RTÉ announced that between 2017 and 2022 it had paid €345,000 more than had been previously disclosed