The following events occurred in Switzerland in the year 2023.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and entertainment
- 76th Locarno Film Festival August 2 â 12
Sports
* 2022âÂÂ23 Swiss Promotion League
* 2022âÂÂ23 Swiss Challenge League
* 2022âÂÂ23 Swiss Super League
* 2022âÂÂ23 Swiss Women's Super League
* 2022âÂÂ23 Swiss Cup
Deaths
- 4 January â Anton Schnider, 86, footballer (BSC Young Boys, FC Grenchen, national team)
- 7 January â Walter Intemann, 78, Swiss-born Austrian businessman and politician
- 9 January â K. Alex Müller, 95, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1987)
- 16 January â Mousse Boulanger, 96, writer and journalist
- 26 January â Edgar Schein, 94, Swiss-born American business theorist and psychologist
- 28 January â Max Huwyler, 91, Swiss writer
- 30 January â Donald M. Hess, 86, winemaker and art collector
- 2 February â Peter Facklam, 92, politician, member of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt (1980âÂÂ1992)
- 15 February â Gilbert Rist, 84, educator
- 23 February â François Couchepin, 88, lawyer and politician, chancellor (1991âÂÂ1999)
- 7 March â André Haefliger, 93, mathematician (Haefliger structure)
- 8 March â Roland Hürzeler, 77, Olympic gymnast (1968)
- 23 March â Peter Marti, 70, footballer (Zürich, Basel, national team)
- 24 March â Marcel Blanc, 88, politician, Vaud state councillor (1978âÂÂ1991)
- 28 March â Theodor Otto Diener, 102, Swiss-American plant pathologist, discoverer of viroids
- 7 April â Elisabeth Kopp, 86, politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council and minister of justice and police (1984âÂÂ1989)
- 9 April â Roberto Frigerio, 84, footballer (Basel, Bellinzona, national team)
- 13 April â Eberhard W. Kornfeld, 99, auctioneer, author, and art dealer
- 25 April â Hanna Johansen, 83, German-born Swiss writer (7ÃÂ7 Tales of a Sevensleeper)
- 26 April â Maja Hug, 95, Olympic figure skater.
- 2 May â Heidy Forster, 92, Swiss-German actress (Hinter den sieben Gleisen, The Roaring Fifties, The Foster Boy)
- 7 May â Peter Zeindler, 89, journalist, writer, and playwright
- 22 May â Michael E. Dreher, 79, politician, MP (1987âÂÂ1999)
- 24 May â Tina Turner, 83, American-born singer ("River Deep â Mountain High", "What's Love Got to Do with It") and actress (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome), 8-time Grammy winner.
- 31 May â Kurt Widmer, 82, baritone and voice teacher (City of Basel Music Academy)
- 6 June â Peter Henrici, 95, Roman Catholic prelate and philosopher, auxiliary bishop of Chur (1993âÂÂ2007)
- 10 June â Hans Mössmer, 91, Olympic ice hockey player.
- 11 June â Jean Wicki, 89, bobsledder, Olympic champion (1972)
- 13 June â Philippe Borer, 68, violinist
- 16 June â Gino Mäder, 26, Olympic road cyclist (2020)
- 27 June â Peter Bieri, 79, writer and philosopher
- 10 July â Christine Hug, 41âÂÂ42, lieutenant colonel
- 14 July â Albert Eschenmoser, 97, organic chemist (Eschenmoser's salt, Eschenmoser fragmentation, Eschenmoser sulfide contraction)
- 19 July â Silvana Lattmann, 104, Italian-Swiss poet and author
- 20 July â Arnaud Bédat, 58, journalist (L'Illustré) and author
- 1 August â Alfred Roch, 98, Olympic cross-country skier.
- 2 August â Laurence Deonna, 86, journalist
- 4 August â Andreas Däscher, 96, four-time Olympic ski jumper
- 9 August â Dionys Baeriswyl, 79, theoretical physicist
- 15 August â Ursula Cantieni, 75, Swiss-German actress (Die Fallers â Die SWR Schwarzwaldserie)
- 19 August â Hans Rudolf Gysin, 82, politician, member of the National Council (1987âÂÂ2011)
- 22 August âÂÂ
- Martin Laciga, 48, Olympic beach volleyball player (2000, 2004)
- Nicolas Gessner, 92, theatre and film director and screen writer.
- 12 September â Kurt Raaflaub, 82, academic and historian
- 9 October â Simone Chapuis-Bischof, 92, women's rights activist
- 10 October â Willy Pfund, 84, politician, member of the National Council (1983âÂÂ1987).
- 11 October â Rainer Gut, 91, bank manager, chairman of Credit Suisse (1983âÂÂ2000).
- 5 November â Susi Eppenberger, 92, politician, MP (1979âÂÂ1991).
- 7 November â Werner Carobbio, 86, politician, member of the National Council (1975âÂÂ1999).
- 15 November â Anna Felder, 85, writer
- 21 November â Georges Perroud, 82, footballer (Sion, Servette, national team).
- 22 November â François Musy, 68, Swiss-born French sound engineer (', Marguerite, Lost Illusions).
- 1 December â Heinz Gstrein, 81, Austrian-Swiss Oriental Orthodox theologian, foreign correspondent, and lecturer (University of Vienna).
- 3 December â Léonard Gianadda, 88, journalist (TSR), engineer, and philanthropist
- 8 December âÂÂ
- Michel Dovaz, 95, wine critic (Guide Hachette des Vins) and food writer
- Jean-Pierre Moulin, 101, journalist (Le Matin), writer and author
- 9 December â Walter Leiser, 92, rower, Olympic silver medalist (1952)
- 10 December â Mark Villiger, 73, judge, justice of the European Court of Human Rights (2006âÂÂ2015).
- 20 December â Gaston Häni, 72, Swiss clown
- 26 December â Lesley McNaught-Mändli, 59, British-born Swiss show jumper, Olympic silver medallist (2000).
- 28 December â Dick Marty, 78, politician, member of the Council of States (1995âÂÂ2011).
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