Tuesday, 18 August 2009

Chess Player Deaths (Chronological)

1874-06-22 - Howard Staunton
1879-03-13 - Adolf Anderssen (age 60)
1884-07-10 - Paul Charles Morphy (age 47)
1888-06-20 - John H Zuckertort (age 45)
1900-08-12 - Wilhelm Steinitz
1906-06-17 - Harry N Pillsbury
1908-01-25 - Mikhail Chigorin
1908-04-11 - Henry Bird
1934-02-17 - Siegbert Tarrasch
1935-03-16 - Aron Nimzowitsch
1941-01-11 - Emanuel Lasker
1942-03-08 - Jose R Capablanca, (age 53)
1944-11-09 - Frank Marshall
1946-03-24 - Alexander A Alekhine (age 53)
1952-06-18 - Efim D Bogolyubov (age 63)
1956-02-05 - Savilly Tartakower (age 74)
1956-11-01 - Lajos Asztalos (age 67)
1961-02-09 - Grigory Levenfish (age 70)
1961-03-14 - Akiba Rubinstein (age 78)
1968-12-31 - Carl Oscar Ahues (age 85)
1973-07-04 - Leonid Stein (age 39)
1975-06-05 - Paul Keres
1977-02-05 - Izaak Boleslavski (age 67)
1981-11-26 - Machgielis "Max" Euwe (age 80)
1981-11-27 - Max [Machgielis] Euwe ?
1984-08-11 - Paul Felix Schmidt
1984-08-14 - Tigran Petroshan (age 55)
1988-11-27 - [John] Hein Donner (age 61)
1992-04-04 - Samuel Reshevsky (age 80)
1992-04-05 - Samuel H Reshevsky ?
1992-06-28 - Mikhail Tal (age 55)
1992-11-05 - Arpad E Elo
1995-01-07 - Harry Golombek (age 83)
1995-05-05 - Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik
1997-02-02 - Erich Eliskases
1999-04-13 - Ortvin Sarapu
2001-11-12 - Tony Miles
2003-05-10 - Milan Vukcevich
2004-08-22 - Konstantin Aseev
2006-12-05 - David Bronstein
2008-01-17 - Bobby Fischer

Posted by ALCHEssMIST.

Chess Player Birthday List (Chronological)

1580-04-18 - Thomas Middleton
1726-09-07 - Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
1794-02-12 - Alexander Petrov (d. 1867)
1818-07-06 - Adolf Anderssen
1833-02-05 - John Watkinson
1833-11-14 - Antonius von der Linde
1836-05-18 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austria
1837-06-22 - Paul Morphy
1842-09-07 - John H Zuckertort
1845-02-14 - Cecil De Vere
1850-11-12 - Mikhail Chigorin
1856-11-07 - Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin
1862-03-05 - Siegbert Tarrasch
1866-03-14 - Alexey Troitsky
1868-12-24 - Emanuel Lasker
1872-12-05 - Harry N Pillsbury
1877-08-10 - Frank Marshall
1881-02-21 - Savilly Tartakower
1882-12-12 - Akiba Rubinstein
1883-12-26 - Carl Oscar Ahues
1885-06-22 - Milan Vidmar
1886-11-07 - Aaron Nimzowitsch
1887-02-21 - Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower
1888-11-19 - Jose Raul Capablanca
1889-04-14 - Efim D Bogoljubov
1892-10-19 - Alexander A Aljechin
1892-11-01 - Alexander Alekhine
1896-09-16 - Andre Cheron,
1900-08-12 - Wilhelm Steinitz
1901-05-20 - Max Euwe
1903-08-25 - Arpad Elo
1906-01-31 - R W Bonham
1906-02-16 - Vera Menchik
1907-04-15 - Gerald Abrahams
1909-05-14 - Vladimir Alatortsev
1911-03-01 - Harry Golombek
1911-04-17 - Mikhail Botvinnik
1911-11-26 - Samuel H Reshevsky,
1913-02-15 - Erich Eliskases
1914-02-21 - Arnold S Denker
1916-01-07 - Paul Keres
1916-08-20 - Paul Felix Schmidt
1917-03-19 - Laszlo Szabo
1919-06-09 - Izaak Boleslavski
1920-07-20 - Lev Aronin
1922-02-08 - Joeri Averbach
1924-02-19 - David Bronstein
1927-07-06 - [Jan] Hein Donner
1928-01-03 - Frank Ross Anderson
1929-05-14 - Vladimir Antoshin
1929-06-17 - Tigran Petrosian
1930-06-12 - Donald Byrne
1931-07-23 - Viktor Korchnoi
1934-03-19 - Borge Andersen
1935-12-08 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya
1937-01-30 - Boris Spassky
1937-09-09 - Mikhail N Tal
1941-05-03 - Nona Gaprindasvili
1943-03-09 - Bobby Fischer
1943-11-11 - Jan Adamski
1944-01-12 - Vlastimil Hort
1945-04-16 - Goran Antunac
1946-08-21 - Lev Alburt
1947-01-08 - Igor Ivanov
1949-01-10 - Walter S Browne
1949-12-13 - Nana Alexandria
1951-05-23 - Anatoly Karpov
1951-06-27 - Ulf Andersson
1951-12-14 - Jan Timman
1953-09-04 - Michael Stean
1955-04-23 - Tony Miles
1955-04-25 - John Nunn
1960-02-13 - Artur Yusupov
1960-10-20 - Konstantin Aseev
1961-01-17 - Maia Chiburdanidze
1962-10-14 - Jaan Ehlvest
1963-04-13 - Garry Kasparov
1963-07-25 - Julian Hodgson
1964-08-25 - Vassilios Kotronias
1964-10-01 - Jonathan Sarfati
1966-01-18 - Alexander Khalifman
1966-03-30 - Efstratios Grivas
1969-03-18 - Vassily Ivanchuk
1969-09-06 - Ben Finegold
1969-12-11 - Vishwanathan Anand
1971-12-07 - Vladimir Akopian
1974-06-02 - Gata Kamsky
1975-03-15 - Veselin Topalov
1975-06-25 - Vladimir Kramnik
1976-07-23 - Judit Polgár
1978-01-08 - Boris Avrukh
1978-09-05 - Zhang Zhong,
1982-10-06 - Levon Aronian
1983-10-11 - Ruslan Ponomariov
1984-04-23 - Alexandra Kosteniuk
1987-03-31 - Humpy Koneru
1988-12-11 - Murugan Thiruchelvam
1990-01-12 - Sergey Karjakin
1990-11-30 - Magnus Carlsen
1994-02-27 - Hou Yifan