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Felix Baumgartner

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Felix Baumgartner

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Also known as Felix Baumgartener, Supersonic Skydive, Highest sky dive, Fearless Felix, Felix Baumgarten

Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper (1969–2025)

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Felix Baumgartner (1969–2025) was an Austrian skydiver, military personnel, racing automobile driver, and boxer. Born in Salzburg, he worked in the fields of skydiving, air sports, BASE jumping, and extreme sport. His nickname was B.A.S.E. 502, and he was sponsored by Red Bull GmbH. Baumgartner received the Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year.

He was interested in space diving and authored the work *Himmelsstürmer*. Baumgartner died accidentally on July 17, 2025, in Porto Sant'Elpidio.

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Person · Open Library

Works
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  • Himmelsstürmer

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Acting · Salzburg, Austria

Felix Baumgartner was an Austrian extreme skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper.

Known for

  • Space Jump — Self2022
  • Sonic Break — Self2018
  • AIRMAN by Andy Hediger2016
  • Heimatleuchten — Self2016
  • Mission to the Edge of Space — Self2013
  • Space Dive — Self2012
  • Ring frei – für die Speedgang — Self2012
  • The Felix Baumgartner Story — Self2010
  • Talk im Hangar-7 — Self2010
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self2007

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
836
Total plays
2,451

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HouseAllspotify

Felix Baumgartner is the brainchild of James Cator who has been DJing in clubs around the world for the last 10 years. The idea was then set in stone when he went into the studio with James Reynolds; who has been writing, producing, and mixing some of the biggest house tracks of the last 12 years; James and James found that the tech-house, main room sound that developed in these studio sessions had something special. Together they are their Austrian alter ego Felix Baumgartner. <a href="https:/

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

    · 2012 · cited 51,051x

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,494x

  3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,879x

  4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,964x

  5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,997x

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Sports profile

Sport
Fighting
Team
_Retired Boxing
Position
Boxer
Nationality
Austria

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Felix
Family name
Baumgartner
Gender
male
Citizenship
Austria
Place of birth
Salzburg
Place of death
Porto Sant'Elpidio
Occupation
stunt performer
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
German
Award
Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year
Field of work
Extreme sport
Sport
boxing
Country for sport
Austria
Official website
felixbaumgartner.com
Image
12. Internationale Sportnacht Davos 2014 (15409745296) (cropped).jpg
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Commons category
Felix Baumgartner
date of birth
1969-04-20
nominated for
Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year
sponsor
Red Bull GmbH
name in native language
Felix Baumgartner
interested in
space diving
date of death
2025-07-17
manner of death
accidental death
nickname
B.A.S.E. 502
allegiance
Austria
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Encyclopedic overview

Felix Baumgartner ( German: [ˈfeːlɪks ˈbaʊ̯mˌɡaʁtnɐ]; 20 April 1969 – 17 July 2025) was an Austrian skydiver, extreme sportsman, and BASE jumper. He was widely known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, United States, as part of the Red Bull Stratos project. By doing so, he set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km (24 mi), reaching an estimated top speed of 1,357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25. He became the first person to break the sound barrier relative to the surface without vehicular power on his descent. He broke skydiving records for exit altitude (38,969.3 metres), vertical freefall distance without a drogue parachute, and vertical speed without a drogue. Although his name is still attached to the last two records, his exit altitude record was broken two years later, when on 24 October 2014, Alan Eustace jumped from 135,890 feet (41.42 km; 25.74 mi) with a drogue.

Baumgartner was also renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he performed during his career. He spent time in the Austrian military, where he practised parachute jumping, including training to land on small target zones. On 17 July 2025, he died in a paragliding accident in Porto Sant'Elpidio, Italy, at the age of 56.

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