Person in history
Yevgeny Prigozhin
Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian businessman, chief of Wagner Group (born 1961)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2023 · August 23
Their story
Who they were
Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian businessman, chief of Wagner Group (born 1961)
Why this date
Yevgeny Prigozhin appears on our August 23 calendar for 2023 as a death entry.
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August 23 2023.
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