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Stratospheric skydiver Felix Baumgartner has died at 56.
Baumgartner died while paragliding today on the eastern coast of Italy, reports the Associated Press. Reports from Italian media said his motorized paraglider crashed into a swimming pool at a hotel, injuring a young woman on the ground
He was most widely known for his 2012 jump from the stratosphere that made him the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall, and the person to complete the highest-ever parachute jump, until that record was topped two years later.
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