Felix Baumgartner, the first person to fall faster than the speed of sound, died at 56 after crashing into a hotel swimming pool while paragliding in Italy.

Skydiver Felix Baumgartner reportedly died at age 56 after a paragliding accident, when he crashed near a hotel swimming pool in Porto Sant'Elpidio, Italy

Felix Baumgartner, a professional daredevil and skydiver who fell faster than the speed of sound from the edge of space in 2012, died in a paragliding accident in Italy on Thursday, according to Red Bull, the company behind Mr. Baumgartner’s extreme jumps. He was 56.