10 December – Ostrava hospital attack: In Ostrava, a man opens fire in a hospital's waiting room, killing six people before fleeing and subsequently shooting himself dead.[1]
Deaths
Karel Bican
5 January – Milan Jankovič [cs], literary scholar, expert in Bohumil Hrabal work (b. 1929).[2]
7 January – Ivan Mašek, dissident, economist and politician, Deputy (b. 1948).[3]
