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Mateschitz was born on 20 May 1944, in Sankt Marein im Mürztal, Styria, Austria, [3] [4] to a family of Slovene-Styrian or Croatian ancestry.His mother's side was from present-day Styria, his father's side was from Maribor (then still part of Styria, but now in Slovenia); [5] [6] some sources place his ancestry in the area of Zadar where he allegedly had relatives and the surname Matešić ...
The billionaire's energy drink company has teams in Formula 1, the German Bundesliga and MLS.
The Styrian-born entrepreneur built a global empire around the energy drink Red Bull and was considered the richest man in Austria. Mateschitz's fortune is estimated at around 25 billion euros ...
Wichian Klanprasert, a Thai police officer, was killed by Vorayuth Yoovidhya, grandson of billionaire Red Bull co-founder Chaleo Yoovidhya, in a hit-and-run incident in Bangkok, Thailand, on 3 September 2012.
Mateschitz co-founded Red Bull in the 1980s alongside Thai entrepreneur Chaleo Yoovidhya, owns two F1 teams, Red Bull Ring circuit in Austria.
The list of fatal World Rally Championship accidents consists of drivers and co-drivers who have died at FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) rallies. The list also includes fatal accidents in the International Championship for Manufacturers (IMC), the predecessor to the World Rally Championship, which was contested from 1970 to 1972.
Police examine a damaged Ferrari at the home of the late Red Bull founder Chaleo Yoovidhaya in Bangkok in 2012. Police say then-27-year-old Vorayuth Yoovidhaya hit a police officer with his ...
1944 – Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman, co-founder of Red Bull GmbH (d. 2022) [30] 1945 – Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian intelligence officer; 1946 – Cher, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress; 1946 – Bobby Murcer, American baseball player, coach, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2008)