| NAME |
BIRTH |
|
DEATH |
AGE |
|
CAUSE OF DEATH |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Abrahams,
Gerald |
1907.04.15 |
|
1980.03.15 |
72 |
|
|
| Adams, Weaver |
1901.04.28 |
|
1963.01.06 |
61 |
|
|
| Agzamov,
Georgy |
1954.09.06 |
|
1986 |
31 |
|
fall from cliff |
| Alapin, Simon |
1856.11.19 |
|
1923.07.15 |
66 |
|
|
| Alatortsev,
Vladimir |
1909.05.14 |
|
1987 |
78 |
|
|
| Albin, Adolf |
1848.09.14 |
|
1920.02.01 |
71 |
|
|
| Alekhine,
Alexander |
1892.10.31 |
|
1946.03.24 |
53 |
|
choked to death |
| Alexander,
Conel |
1909.04.19 |
|
1974.02.15 |
64 |
|
|
| Allgaier,
Johann |
1763.06.19 |
|
1823.01.03 |
59 |
|
dropsy |
| Anderssen,
Adolf |
1818.07.06 |
|
1879.03.13 |
60 |
|
heart attack |
| Atkins, Henry |
1872.08.20 |
|
1955.01.31 |
82 |
|
|
| Bagirov,
Vladimir |
1936.08.16 |
|
2000.07.21 |
63 |
|
heart attack -
playing chess in Finland |
| Balinas,
Rosendo |
1941.09.10 |
|
1998.09.24 |
57 |
|
cancer - liver |
| Barcza,
Gedeon |
1911.08.21 |
|
1986.02.27 |
74 |
|
|
| Bardeleben,
Curt von |
1861.03.04 |
|
1924.01.31 |
62 |
|
suicide - jumped |
| Barnes,
Thomas |
1825 |
|
1874.08.20 |
49 |
|
weight loss |
| Benjamin,
Alan |
1934 |
|
2001 |
67 |
|
heart attack |
| Bernstein,
Osip |
1882.10.02 |
|
1962.11.30 |
80 |
|
|
| Bird, Henry |
1830.07.14 |
|
1908.04.11 |
77 |
|
|
| Blackburne,
Joseph |
1841.12.10 |
|
1924.09.01 |
82 |
|
heart attack |
| Bloodgood,
Claude |
1924.07.14. |
|
2001.08.04 |
77 |
|
cancer - lung |
| Boden, Samuel |
1826.04.04 |
|
1882.01.13 |
55 |
|
typhoid fever |
| Bogoljubow,
Efim |
1889.04.14 |
|
1952.06.18 |
63 |
|
heart attack -
playing chess |
| Boi, Paolo |
1528 |
|
1598 |
70 |
|
poisoned |
| Bolbochan,
Julio |
1920.03.20 |
|
1996.06.28 |
76 |
|
|
| Boleslavsky,
Isaak |
1919.06.09 |
|
1977.02.15 |
57 |
|
|
| Bondarevsky,
Igor |
1913.05.12 |
|
1979.06.14 |
66 |
|
|
| Botvinnik,
Mikhail |
1911.08.17 |
|
1995.05.05 |
83 |
|
cancer |
| Bourdonnais,
Louis |
1795 |
|
1840.12.13 |
45 |
|
stroke; dropsy |
| Breyer, Gyula |
1893.04.30 |
|
1921.11.09 |
28 |
|
heart disease |
| Buckle, Henry |
1821.11.24 |
|
1862.05.29 |
40 |
|
typhoid fever |
| Burn, Amos |
1848.12.31 |
|
1925.11.25 |
76 |
|
|
| Byrne, Donald |
1930.06.12 |
|
1976.04.08 |
45 |
|
|
| Calvo,
Ricardo |
1943.10.22 |
|
2002.09.26 |
59 |
|
cancer - esophagus |
| Canal,
Esteban |
1896.04.19 |
|
1981.02.14 |
84 |
|
|
| Capablanca,
Jose |
1888.11.19 |
|
1942.03.08 |
53 |
|
heart attack |
| Carrera,
Pietro |
1573.01.12 |
|
1647.09.18 |
74 |
|
|
| Charousek,
Rudolf |
1873.09.19 |
|
1900.04.18 |
26 |
|
tuberculosis |
| Chernev,
Irving |
1900.01.29 |
|
1981.09.29 |
81 |
|
|
| Chigorin,
Mikhail |
1850.11.12 |
|
1908.01.25 |
57 |
|
diabetes |
| Ciocaltea,
Victor |
1932.01.16 |
|
1983.09.10 |
51 |
|
|
| Cochrane,
John |
1798.02.04 |
|
1878.03.02 |
80 |
|
|
| Colle, Edgar |
1897.05.18 |
|
1932.04.20 |
34 |
|
operation for ulcer |
| Collins, John |
1912.09.23 |
|
2001.12.02 |
89 |
|
|
| Dake, Arthur |
1910.04.08 |
|
2000.05.02 |
90 |
|
died in his sleep in
Portland, Oregon |
| de Vere,
Cecil |
1845.02.14 |
|
1875.02.09 |
29 |
|
tuberculosis |
| del Rio,
Ercole |
1720 |
|
1800 |
80 |
|
|
| Denker,
Arnold |
1914.02.20 |
|
2005.01.02 |
90 |
|
brain cancer |
| Deschapelles,
Alex |
1780.03.07 |
|
1847.10.27 |
67 |
|
hydropsy |
| Donner, Jan |
1927.07.06 |
|
1988.11.27 |
61 |
|
|
| Duras,
Oldrich |
1882.10.30 |
|
1957.01.05 |
74 |
|
|
| Edmundson, Ed |
1920.08.13 |
|
1982.10.21 |
62 |
|
heart attack -
playing chess on beach |
| Eliskases,
Erich |
1913.02.15 |
|
1997.02.02 |
83 |
|
|
| Elo, Arpad |
1903.08.25 |
|
1992.11.05 |
89 |
|
|
| Englisch,
Berthold |
1851.07.09 |
|
1897.10.19 |
46 |
|
|
| Euwe, Max |
1901.05.20 |
|
1981.11.26 |
80 |
|
heart attack |
| Fine, Reuben |
1914.10.11 |
|
1993.03.281993 |
78 |
|
|
| Flesch, Janso |
1933.09.30 |
|
1983.12.09 |
50 |
|
car wreck |
| Flohr, Salo |
1908.11.21 |
|
1983.07.18 |
74 |
|
|
| Furman, Semen |
1920.12.01 |
|
1978.03.17 |
57 |
|
|
| Garcia,
Guillermo |
1953.12.09 |
|
1990.10.26 |
36 |
|
car wreck |
| Geller, Efim |
1925.03.02 |
|
1998.11.17 |
73 |
|
cancer |
| Gipslis,
Aivars |
1937.02.08 |
|
2000.04.14 |
63 |
|
stroke while playing
chess in Berlin |
| Golombek,
Harry |
1911.03.01 |
|
1995.01.07 |
83 |
|
|
| Graf-Stevenson,
Sonja |
1914.12.16 |
|
1965.03.06 |
50 |
|
|
| Greco,
Gioacchino |
1600 |
|
1634 |
34 |
|
|
| Gresser, Kahn |
1906.02.08 |
|
2000.12.04 |
94 |
|
died in Manhattan |
| Grigorian,
Karen |
1947.09.07 |
|
1989 |
42 |
|
suicide - jumped |
| Grigoriev,
Nikolai |
1895.08.14 |
|
1938.11.10 |
43 |
|
appendicitis |
| Grunfeld,
Ernst |
1893.11.21 |
|
1962,04.03 |
68 |
|
|
| Gufeld,
Eduard |
1936.03.19 |
|
2002 |
66 |
|
stroke |
| Gunsberg,
Isidor |
1854.11.02 |
|
1930.05.02 |
75 |
|
|
| Harrwitz,
Daniel |
1823.04.29 |
|
1884.01.09 |
60 |
|
|
| Helms,
Hermann |
1870.01.05 |
|
1963.01.06 |
93 |
|
|
| Hooper, David |
1915.08.31 |
|
1998.05.03 |
82 |
|
|
| Horowitz, Al |
1907.11.15 |
|
1973.01.18 |
65 |
|
|
| Horwitz,
Bernhard |
1807.05.10 |
|
1885.08.29 |
77 |
|
|
| Ilyin-Genevsky,
A. |
1894.11.28 |
|
1941.09.03 |
46 |
|
shelled |
| Jaenisch,
Carl |
1813.08.23 |
|
1872.03.17 |
58 |
|
|
| Janowsky,
Dawid |
1868.06.07 |
|
1927.01.15 |
58 |
|
tuberculosis |
| Junge, Klaus |
1924.01.01 |
|
1945.04.17 |
21 |
|
shot in WW II |
| Karff, Mona |
1914.10.20 |
|
1998.01.10 |
83 |
|
died in Manhattan |
| Kashdan,
Isaac |
1905.11.19 |
|
1985.02.20 |
79 |
|
|
| Kasparyan,
Genrikh |
1910.02.27 |
|
1995.12.17 |
85 |
|
|
| Keres, Paul |
1916.01.07 |
|
1975.06.05 |
59 |
|
heart attack |
| Kieseritzky,
Lionel |
1806.01.01 |
|
1853.05.18 |
47 |
|
|
| Kmoch, Hans |
1894.07.25 |
|
1973.02.13 |
78 |
|
|
| Kogan, Boris |
1940.02.08 |
|
1993.12.25 |
53 |
|
|
| Kolisch,
Ignatz |
1837.04.06 |
|
1889.04.30 |
52 |
|
|
| Koltanowski,
George |
1903.09.17 |
|
2000.02.05 |
96 |
|
heart failure; San
Francisco |
| Korn, Walter |
1908.05.22 |
|
1997.07.10 |
89 |
|
died in Burlingame,
CA |
| Kostic, Boris |
1887.02.24 |
|
1963.11.03 |
76 |
|
blood poisoning from
a scratch |
| Kotov,
Alexander |
1913.08.12 |
|
1981.01.08 |
67 |
|
|
| Kubbel, Arvid |
1889.09.12 |
|
1942 |
53 |
|
executed by firing
squad |
| Landau, Salo |
1903.04.01 |
|
1943.11.15 |
40 |
|
gassed in
concentration camp |
| Lasa, Tassilo
von der |
1818.10.17 |
|
1899.07.27 |
80 |
|
|
| Lasker, Ed |
1885.12.03 |
|
1981.03.23 |
95 |
|
|
| Lasker,
Emanuel |
1868.12.24 |
|
1941.01.11 |
72 |
|
heart attack |
| Legall, Sire
de |
1702 |
|
1792 |
90 |
|
|
| Leonardo,
Giovanni |
1542 |
|
1587 |
45 |
|
|
| Leonhardt,
Paul |
1877.11.13 |
|
1934.12.14 |
57 |
|
heart attack -
playing chess |
| Levenfish,
Grigory |
1889.03.09 |
|
1961.02.09 |
71 |
|
|
| Lewis,
William |
1787.10.09 |
|
1870.08.22 |
82 |
|
|
| Lim, Kok |
1920.01.27 |
|
2003.03.08 |
83 |
|
died in Singapore |
| Lolli,
Giambattista |
1698 |
|
1769.06.04 |
71 |
|
|
| Lopez, Ruy |
1530 |
|
1580 |
50 |
|
|
| Lowenthal,
Johann |
1810.07.15 |
|
1876.07.21 |
66 |
|
|
| Loyd, Sam |
1841.01.30 |
|
1911.04.10 |
70 |
|
|
| Lucena, Luis |
1475 |
|
1530 |
55 |
|
|
| Lutikov,
Anatoly |
1933.02.05 |
|
1989.10.15 |
56 |
|
|
| Mackenzie,
George |
1837.03.24 |
|
1891.04.14 |
54 |
|
suicide - morphine
overdose |
| Makogonov,
Vladimir |
1904.08.27 |
|
1993 |
89 |
|
|
| Maroczy, Geza |
1870.03.03 |
|
1951.05.29 |
81 |
|
|
| Marshall,
Frank |
1877.08.10 |
|
1944.11.09 |
67 |
|
heart attack |
| Mason, James |
1849.11.19 |
|
1905.01.15 |
54 |
|
|
| McDonnell,
Alexander |
1798.05.22 |
|
1835.09.14 |
37 |
|
Bright's disease |
| Mednis, Edmar |
1937.03.22 |
|
2002.02.13 |
64 |
|
pneumonia; cardiac
arrest |
| Menchik, Vera |
1906.02.16 |
|
1944.06.26 |
38 |
|
bombing raid; V1
rocket on her house |
| Mieses,
Jacques |
1865.02.27 |
|
1954.02.23 |
88 |
|
|
| Miles, Tony |
1955.04.23 |
|
2001.11.12 |
46 |
|
heart failure;
diabetes |
| Milic,
Borislav |
1925.10.20 |
|
1986.05.27 |
60 |
|
|
| Milner-Barry,
Philip |
1906.09.20 |
|
1995.03.25 |
88 |
|
|
| Minckwitz,
Hans |
1843.04.11 |
|
1901.05.20 |
58 |
|
suicide - hit by
train |
| Monticelli,
Mario |
1902.03.16 |
|
1995.06.30 |
93 |
|
|
| Morphy, Paul |
1837.06.22 |
|
1884.07.10 |
47 |
|
stroke |
| Muir, Walter |
1905.08.07 |
|
1999.12.29 |
94 |
|
|
| Najdorf,
Miguel |
1910.04.15 |
|
1997.07.04 |
87 |
|
heart attack |
| Neumann,
Gustav |
1838.12.15 |
|
1881.02.16 |
42 |
|
|
| Nimzovich,
Aaron |
1886.11.07 |
|
1935.03.16 |
48 |
|
pneumonia |
| O'Kelly,
Alberic |
1911.05.17 |
|
1980.10.03 |
69 |
|
|
| Oll, Lembit |
1964.11.07 |
|
1999 |
35 |
|
suicide - jumped |
| Ostojic,
Predrag |
1938.02.22 |
|
1996.07.05 |
58 |
|
|
| Pachman,
Ludek |
1924.05.11 |
|
2003.03.06 |
78 |
|
|
| Paulsen,
Louis |
1833.01.15 |
|
1891.08.18 |
58 |
|
diabetes |
| Perlis,
Julius |
1880.01.19 |
|
1913.09.11 |
33 |
|
fall from mountain in
Alps |
| Petroff,
Alexander |
1794.02.12 |
|
1867.04.22 |
73 |
|
|
| Petrosian,
Tigran |
1929.06.17 |
|
1984.08.13 |
55 |
|
cancer |
| Petrov,
Vladimir |
1908 |
|
1943 |
35 |
|
died in a prison camp |
| Philidor,
Francois |
1726.09.07 |
|
1795.08.31 |
68 |
|
|
| Pillsbury,
Harry |
1872.12.05 |
|
1906.06.17 |
33 |
|
syphillis |
| Pilnik,
Herman |
1914.01.08 |
|
1981.11.12 |
67 |
|
|
| Pirc, Vasja |
1907.12.19 |
|
1980.06.02 |
72 |
|
|
| Polerio,
Giulio |
1548 |
|
1612 |
64 |
|
|
| Polugayevsky,
Lev |
1934.11.20 |
|
1995.08.30 |
60 |
|
|
| Ponziani,
Domenico |
1719.11.09 |
|
1796.07.15 |
76 |
|
|
| Przepiorka,
David |
1880.12.22 |
|
1940.04.15 |
59 |
|
gassed in
concentration camp |
| Purdy, Cecil |
1906.03.27 |
|
1979.11.06 |
73 |
|
heart attack -
playing chess |
| Rabinovich,
Abram |
1878 |
|
1943.11.07 |
65 |
|
starvation |
| Ragozin, V. |
1908.10.08 |
|
1962.03.11 |
53 |
|
|
| Reinfeld,
Fred |
1910.01.27 |
|
1964.05.29 |
54 |
|
|
| Reshevsky,
Samuel |
1911.11.26 |
|
1992.04.04 |
80 |
|
heart attack |
| Reti, Richard |
1889.05.28 |
|
1929.06.06 |
40 |
|
scarlet fever |
| Robatsch,
Karl |
1928.10.14 |
|
2000.09.19 |
71 |
|
cancer - stomach and
throat |
| Rossolimo,
Nicholas |
1910.02.28 |
|
1975.07.24 |
65 |
|
fall from stairs |
| Rubinstein,
Akiba |
1882.10.12 |
|
1961.03.15 |
78 |
|
|
| Rubtsova,
Olga |
1909.08.20 |
|
1994 |
85 |
|
|
| Rudenko,
Liudmila |
1904.07.27 |
|
1986.03.05 |
81 |
|
|
| Saint-Amant,
Pierre |
1800.09.12 |
|
1872.10.29 |
72 |
|
|
| Saemisch,
Fritz |
1896.09.20 |
|
1975.08.16 |
78 |
|
|
| Salvio,
Alessandro |
1570 |
|
1640 |
70 |
|
|
| Sarratt,
Jacob |
1772 |
|
1819.11.06 |
37 |
|
|
| Schiffers,
Emanuel |
1850.05.04 |
|
1904.12.12 |
54 |
|
|
| Schlechter,
Carl |
1874.03.02 |
|
1918.12.27 |
44 |
|
starvation; pneumonia |
| Showalter,
Jackson |
1860.02.05 |
|
1935.02.05 |
75 |
|
|
| Simagin,
Vladimir |
1919.06.21 |
|
1968.09.25 |
49 |
|
heart attack |
| Smith, Ken |
1930.09.13 |
|
1999 |
68 |
|
|
| Spielmann,
Rudolf |
1883.05.05 |
|
1942.08.20 |
59 |
|
|
| St Amant,
Pierre |
1800.09.12 |
|
1872.10.29 |
72 |
|
fall from carriage |
| Stahlberg,
Gideon |
1908.01.261908 |
|
1967.05.26 |
59 |
|
heart attack |
| Stamma,
Phillp |
1710 |
|
1770 |
60 |
|
|
| Staunton,
Howard |
1810 |
|
1874.06.22 |
64 |
|
heart attack |
| Stein, Leonid |
1934.11.12 |
|
1973.07.04 |
38 |
|
heart attack |
| Steiner,
Herman |
1905.04.15 |
|
1955.11.25 |
50 |
|
heart attack |
| Steinitz,
William |
1836.05.17 |
|
1900.08.12 |
64 |
|
|
| Stoltz, Gosta |
1904.05.09 |
|
1963.07.25 |
59 |
|
|
| Suetin,
Alexei |
1926.11.16 |
|
2001/09.10 |
74 |
|
heart attack after a
chess tournament |
| Sultan Khan,
Mir |
1905 |
|
1966.04.25 |
61 |
|
|
| Szabo, Laszlo |
1917.03.19 |
|
1998.08.08 |
81 |
|
|
| Tal, Mikhail |
1936.11.09 |
|
1992.06.28 |
55 |
|
kidney failure |
| Tarrasch,
Siegbert |
1862.03.05 |
|
1934.02.17 |
71 |
|
|
| Tartakower,
Saviely |
1887.02.21 |
|
1956.02.05 |
68 |
|
|
| Teichmann,
Richard |
1868.12.24 |
|
1925.06.12 |
56 |
|
|
| Tolush,
Alexander |
1910.05.01 |
|
1969.03.03 |
58 |
|
|
| Torre, Carlos |
1905.11.23 |
|
1978.03.19 |
72 |
|
|
| Trifunovic,
Petar |
1910.08.31 |
|
1980.12.08 |
70 |
|
|
| Troitzky,
Alexei |
1866.03.14 |
|
1942.08.15 |
76 |
|
starvation |
| Turner, Abe |
1924 |
|
1962.10.25 |
38 |
|
stabbed to death |
| van
Scheltinga, Theo |
1914.03.06 |
|
1994.07.30 |
80 |
|
|
| Vidmar, Milan |
1885.06.22 |
|
1962.10.09 |
77 |
|
|
| Vitolins,
Edvins |
1938 |
|
1997 |
59 |
|
suicide - jumped |
| Vukcevich,
Milan |
1937.03.11 |
|
2003.05.10 |
66 |
|
|
| Vyzmanavin,
Alexei |
1960 |
|
2000 |
40 |
|
|
| Walker,
George |
1803.03.13 |
|
1879.04.23 |
76 |
|
|
| Weiss, Max |
1857.07.21 |
|
1927.03.14 |
69 |
|
|
| Winawer,
Simon |
1838.03.05 |
|
1920.01.12 |
81 |
|
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| Yanovsky,
Daniel |
1925.03.26 |
|
2000.03.05 |
74 |
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cancer |
| Yates,
Frederick |
1884.01.16 |
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1932.11.11 |
48 |
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gas leak in house
(suicide?) |
| Zaitsev,
Alexander |
1935.06.15 |
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1971.10.31 |
36 |
|
thrombosis |
| Znosko-Borovsky,
E. |
1884.08.28 |
|
1954.12.31 |
70 |
|
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| Zukertort,
Johannes |
1842.09.07 |
|
1888.06.20 |
45 |
|
stroke |
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