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 |
|
|
Yanovsky,
Daniel |
1925.03.26 |
|
2000.03.05 |
74 |
|
cancer |
Yates,
Frederick |
1884.01.16 |
|
1932.11.11 |
48 |
|
gas leak in house
(suicide?) |
Zaitsev,
Alexander |
1935.06.15 |
|
1971.10.31 |
36 |
|
thrombosis |
Znosko-Borovsky,
E. |
1884.08.28 |
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1954.12.31 |
70 |
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Zukertort,
Johannes |
1842.09.07 |
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1888.06.20 |
45 |
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stroke |
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