List of events
Events during the year 2023 in Italy.
Incumbents
Events
January
- 1 January:
- 2 January:
- 4 January: The historic Vecchia Milano pastry shop in the center of Milan closes after 50 years of service.
- 5 January:
- In Genoa, a man shoots his girlfriend and then takes his own life.
- In Somma Vesuviana (municipality in the province of Naples) 90 fines are imposed in two days due to occupation of the area available only for the disabled.
- 6 January: In Arezzo, Tuscany, a man tries to demolish a house after an argument with a man, killing the same man with a gunshot.
- 8 January: Clash on the A1 highway of Arezzo between ultras from Roma and Naples.
- 14 January:
- 16 January: Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the most wanted men in Italy and Europe, is arrested in Palermo, Sicily, after 30 years on the run.
February
- 7–11 February: Sanremo Music Festival 2023
- 12–13 February:
- 17 February: A public transport strike takes place in Rome.
- 18 February: A neo-fascist group attacks the students of a high school in Florence with kicks and punches.
- 21 February: Most Italian voice actors go on strike following a lack of protection and salary increases, and the use of their voices by artificial intelligences without permission. This generates unease among fans who are waiting for the series dubbed into Italian.
- 26 February:
March
- 9 March: In Viterbo neo-Nazi banners are displayed with insults to the new secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein.
- 31 March: Italy's Data Protection Authority blocks ChatGPT for allegedly breaching data protection rules and failing to verify that its users are at least 13 years old.
April
- 2–3 April: 2023 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election
- 7 April: Italy’s national birth rate falls to its lowest level on record since 1861. With fewer than 400,000 births in 2022.
- 19 April: Francesco Lollobrigida Minister of Agriculture makes a speech to a trade union conference suggesting that "Italians are having fewer children, so we're replacing them with someone else. [We say] yes to helping births, no to ethnic replacement. That’s not the way forward." Responding to his statement opposition politicians cited references to Italian fascist rhetoric of the 1930s. News reports set his remarks in the wider context of the racist Great Replacement theory.
May
June
July
- 12 July: A man is acquitted of assault as grope lasted less than 10 seconds. According to the judge, what happened “does not constitute a crime” because it lasted less than 10 seconds. The ruling has caused an uproar, with people posting videos on social media simulating groping.
August
September
- 13 September: Three people are killed and several others are injured in an explosion at a factory in Chieti, Abruzzo. A similar explosion at the factory in 2020 killed three workers.
- 16 September: A military plane crashes near Turin, Piedmont, killing a 5-year-old child and injuring four people, including the pilot.
October
Deaths
January
- 1 January – Mario Artali, 84, businessman and politician, deputy (1972–1976).
- 2 January – Massimo Turci, 92, voice actor.
- 3 January – Giorgio Tombesi, 96, politician, deputy (1976–1983).
- 4 January – Heinrich Oberleiter, 81, South Tyrolean separatis.
- 5 January –
- 6 January –
- Gervasio Gestori, 86, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto (1996–2013).
- Gianluca Vialli, 58, footballer (Sampdoria, national team) and manager (Chelsea).
- Renzo Sacco, 78, politician, president of the Province of Padua (1995–1998).
- Victoria de Stefano, 82, Italian-Venezuelan novelist.
- 7 January –
- Tony Pantano, 74, Italian-born Australian singer and entertainer.
- Gian Pietro Testa, 86, writer, journalist and poet.
- 10 January – Gaudenzio Bernasconi, 90, footballer (Atalanta, Sampdoria, national team).
- 11 January – Antonio Muratore, 95, politician, senator (1983–1994).
- 12 January –
- 14 January – Gianfranco Baruchello, 98, painter.
- 16 January – Gina Lollobrigida, 95, actress (Bread, Love and Dreams, Come September, The Hunchback of Notre Dame).
- 17 January –
- 18 January – Cesare Veneziani, 89, politician, mayor of Bergamo (1999–2004).
- 21 January – Pino Roveredo, 68, writer.
- 22 January –
- 23 January – Patrizio Billio, 48, footballer (Crystal Palace, Ancona, Dundee).
- 24 January – Benito Bollati, 96, lawyer and politician, deputy (1974–1979).
- 27 January – Pietro Forquet, 97, bridge player.
- 28 January – Carlo Tavecchio, 79, football executive, president of the FIGC (2014–2017).
- 29 January – Vito Chimenti, 69, football player (Matera, Palermo, Taranto) and manager.
- 31 January – Luigi Pasinetti, 92, economist.
February
- 1 February – Renato Benaglia, 84, football player (Fiorentina, Catania, Roma) and coach.
- 2 February –
- 3 February –
- Sergio Solli, 78, actor (Il mistero di Bellavista, I Can Quit Whenever I Want, Ciao, Professore!).
- Dante Stefani, 95, partisan and politician, senator (1979–1987).
- Giuseppina Bersani, 73, Olympic fencer (1972).
- 4 February –
- 5 February – Renato Del Ponte, 78, essayist.
- 6 February – Nicolò Mineo, 89, literary critic, literary historian and philologist.
- 7 February –
- 8 February – Elena Fanchini, 37, Olympic alpine ski racer (2006, 2010, 2014).
- 9 February – Piero Montanari, 76, composer and bassist.
- 10 February – Giovanni Bettini, 84, architect and politician, deputy (1979–1983).
- 15 February –
- 16 February –
- Alberto Radius, 80, guitarist and singer-songwriter (Formula 3).
- Giorgio Ruffolo, 96, politician, MP (1983–1994) and minister of the environment (1987–1992).
- Mario Vitti, 96, Italian philologist.
- Mario Zurlini, 80, Italian football player (Napoli, F.C. Matera) and coach (Savoia).
- 17 February – Maurizio Scaparro, 91, stage director.
- 18 February – Ilario Castagner, 82, football player and manager (Perugia, Milan, Inter Milan).
- 23 February – Giuseppe Nirta, 82, mobster.
- 24 February – Maurizio Costanzo, 84, television host, journalist, and screenwriter (The House with Laughing Windows, A Special Day, Zeder).
- 26 February – Curzio Maltese, 63, journalist (la Repubblica, La Gazzetta dello Sport) and politician, MEP (2014–2019).
March
- 5 March – Piero Gilardi, 80, visual artist.
- 6 March – Mario Telò, 72, political scientist and researcher.
- 15 March – Pierluigi Concutelli, 78, neofascist terrorist and bank robber.
- 21 March – Francesco Maselli, 92, film director and screenwriter.
- 22 March – Lucy Salani, 98, activist and the only known Italian transgender person to have survived the Nazi concentration camps.
- 26 March – Ivano Marescotti, 77, actor and theatre director.
April
- 2 April – Luigi Raffin, 86, footballer.
- 3 April – Nico Cirasola, 71, film director, screenwriter and actor.
- 5 April – Sergio Gori, 77, footballer.
- 9 April – Ettore Fiorini, 89, physicist.
- 12 April – Ambra Danon, 75, costume designer.
- 13 April – Julia Ituma, 18, volleyball player.
- 14 April –
- 15 April – Mario Fratti, 95, playwright.
- 17 April – Virgilio Tosi, 97, documentary filmmaker.
- 19 April – Federico Salvatore, 63, singer-songwirter and comedian.
- 21 April –
- 26 April – Stefano Gentili, 65, politician.
- 27 April – Giovanni Lombardo Radice, 67, actor.
- 28 April –
May
- 2 May –
- 3 May – Alessandro D'Alatri, 68, film director (Red American, No Skin, The Fever), screenwriter and actor.
- 6 May – Pietro Barucci, 100, architect and urban planner.
- 7 May – Filippo Ottoni, 84, film director, screenwriter (Detective School Dropouts, A Bay of Blood, Jonah Who Lived in the Whale) and dubbing director.
- 8 May – Benito Pavoni, 86, politician, deputy (1987–1992).
- 10 May –
- Massimo Cavezzali, 73, comic book artist.
- Virginia von Fürstenberg, 48, artist, poet and fashion designer.
- Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, 89, musicologist.
- Enrico Oldoini, 77, film director (Don Matteo, Vacanze di Natale '90, Anni 90) and screenwriter.
- 13 May – Giotto Bizzarrini, 96, automobile engineer.
- 17 May – Chiara Moretti, 67, actress.
- 20 May – Sante Ranucci, 89, racing cyclist.
- 26 May – Roberto Cicciomessere, 76, politician.
- 28 May – Isa Barzizza, 93, actress.
- 30 May – Paolo Portoghesi, 91, architect.
- 31 May – Luca Di Fulvio, 66, writer and playwright.
June
- 2 June – Achille Ottaviani, 72, journalist and politician.
- 4 June –
- 7 June –
- 8 June –
- 10 June – Nuccio Ordine, 64, literary scholar and philosopher.
- 12 June –
- Silvio Berlusconi, 86, media tycoon and politician, Prime Minister (1994–1995, 2001–2006, 2008–2011).
- Francesco Nuti, 68, film director (Stregati, The Pool Hustlers), actor (West of Paperino), and comedian.
- 14 June – Raimondo Crociani, 77, film editor (A Special Day, We All Loved Each Other So Much, Le Bal).
- 20 June – Paolo Zavallone, 90, singer and composer.
July
- 5 July – Walkiria Terradura, 99, partisan.
- 6 July – Arnaldo Forlani, 97, politician, prime minister (1980–1981).
- 19 July – Andrea Purgatori, 70, journalist (Corriere della Sera), screenwriter (The Rubber Wall, The Entrepreneur), and actor.
- 29 July – Vittorio Prodi, 86, politician.
August
- 7 August – Mario Tronti, 92, philosopher and politician.
- 10 August –
- 14 August – Francesco Alberoni, 93, journalist and sociologist.
- 16 August – Renata Scotto, 89, operatic soprano.
- 19 August – Carlo Mazzone, 86, footballer and manager.
- 22 August – Toto Cutugno, 80, singer-songwriter and musician.
September
- 6 September – Giuliano Montaldo, 93, film director (Sacco and Vanzetti, Machine Gun McCain, The Reckless).
- 22 September – Giorgio Napolitano, 98, former President of Italy (2006–2015).
- 25 September – Luigi Minchillo, 68, Italian Olympic boxer (1976), heart attack.
- 28 September – Armando Sommajuolo [it], 70, Italian journalist (TG La7).
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