|
Player’s Name |
Born/Death |
Cause of Death |
|
Abe Turner |
1924
/ 1962 |
Stabbed nine
times in the back by a fellow employee at the Chess Review office |
|
Alexandre Deschapelles |
1780
/ 1847 |
Hydropsy |
|
Abram Rabinovich |
1878 / 1943 |
Starvation |
|
Adolf Anderssen |
1818
/ 1879 |
Heart attack |
|
Aivars Gipslis |
1937
/ 2000 |
Stroke while playing Chess in Berlin |
|
Alexander
Alekhine |
1892
/ 1946 |
Choked
to death on a piece of meat |
|
Alexander
Ilyin-Genevsky |
1894
/ 1941 |
Died in the siege of Leningrad
while on a barge |
|
Alexander McDonnell |
1798
/ 1835 |
Died of Bright’s
disease |
|
Alexander Zaitsev |
1935 / 1971 |
Died of
thrombosis as a consequence
of a leg operation |
|
Alexei Suetin |
1926
/ 2001 |
Heart attack after a Chess tournament |
|
Alexey Vyzmanavin |
1960
/ 2000 |
Heart attack / Age 40 |
|
Alexi Troitzky |
1866
/ 1942 |
Died of
starvation during the
siege of Leningrad |
|
Alvis Vitolins |
1938
/ 1997 |
Suicide by jumping |
|
Andor A. Lilienthal |
1911
/
2010 |
Died after a long illness |
|
Aron Nimzovich |
1886
/ 1935 |
Died of pneumonia |
|
Arthur Dake |
1910
/ 2000 |
Died in his sleep at age 90 |
|
Bent
Larsen |
1935
/
2010 |
Died from
a cerebral hemorrhage |
|
Boris Kostic |
1887
/
1963 |
Blood poisoning from a scratch |
|
Carl Schlechter |
1874
/ 1918 |
Died from
pneumonia and starvation |
|
Cecil de Vere |
1845
/ 1975 |
Tuberculosis |
|
Cecil Purdy |
1906
/ 1979 |
Died of a heart attack while playing
Chess |
|
Claude Bloodgood |
1924
/ 2001 |
Lung cancer while in prison for life |
|
Curt von Bardeleben |
1861
/ 1924 |
Threw himself out the window
of his boarding home |
|
Daniel Yanovsky |
1925
/ 2000 |
Cancer |
|
David Bronstein |
1924
/ 2006 |
Died of a stroke
in Minsk,
Belarus at age 82 |
|
David Przepiorka |
1880 / 1940 |
Died in a mass
execution outside
Warsaw |
|
Dawid Janowsky |
1868 / 1927 |
Tuberculosis |
|
Ed Edmundson |
1920
/ 1982 |
Died of a heart
attack while playing
Chess on a beach in Hawaii |
|
Edgar Colle |
1897
/ 1932 |
Died after an
operation for a gastric ulcer |
|
Edmar Mednis |
1937
/ 2002 |
Pneumonia and cardiac arrest |
|
Eduard Gufeld |
1936
/ 2002 |
Stroke |
|
Efim Bogoljubov |
1889
/ 1952 |
Suffered a heart attack after
a
simultaneous display |
|
Efim Geller |
1925
/ 1998 |
Cancer |
|
Emanuel Lasker |
1868
/ 1941 |
Heart attack |
|
Erik Andersen |
1904
/ 1938 |
Unknown / Age 33 |
|
Frank Marshall |
1877
/ 1944 |
Died of a
heart attack after leaving
a Chess tournament |
|
Frederick Yates |
1884
/ 1932 |
Died in his
sleep from a leak in a
faulty gas pipe connection |
|
George
Koltanowski |
1903
/ 2000 |
Heart failure at the age of 97 |
|
George Mackenzie |
1837
/ 1891 |
Suicide: took an overdose of morphine. |
|
Georgy Agzamov |
1954
/ 1986 |
Russian GM
fell between some
rocks at a beach and died |
|
Gideon Stahlberg |
1908
/ 1967 |
Heart attack during
the 1967
Leningrad
International tournament |
|
Guillermo Garcia |
1953
/ 1990 |
Car wreck |
|
Gyula Breyer |
1893
/ 1921 |
Died
from heart disease |
|
Harry Pillsbury |
1872
/ 1906 |
Died of
syphilis |
|
Henry Buckle |
1821
/ 1862 |
Typhoid fever |
|
Herman Steiner |
1905
/ 1955 |
Died after a
California State
Championship game |
|
Howard Staunton |
1810
/ 1874 |
Died of a
heart attack while
writing a Chess
book |
|
Ignatz von Kolisch |
1837 / 1889 |
Kidney failure at the age of 52 |
|
Janos Flesch |
1933 / 1983 |
Died in a car
wreck in England |
|
Johann Allgaie |
1763
/ 1823 |
Dropsy |
|
Johann Zukertort |
1842
/ 1888 |
Died of a
stroke while playing Chess
at a London coffee-house |
|
Johannes
Minckwitz |
1843
/ 1901 |
Suicide: threw himself under a train |
|
Jose Capablanca |
1888
/ 1942 |
Died of a
stroke while watching a skittles game at
the Manhattan Chess Club |
|
Josef Cukierman |
1900
/ 1941 |
Committed suicide during world war II |
|
Joseph Blackburne |
1841
/ 1924 |
Heart attack |
|
Julius Perlis |
1880
/ 1913 |
Died in a
mountain climb in the Alps |
|
Karel Treybal |
1885 / 1941 |
Died a victim
of the Nazis |
|
Karen Grigorian |
1947 / 1989 |
Suicide by jumping |
|
Karl Robatsch |
1928 / 2000 |
Stomach and throat cancer |
|
Klaus Junge |
1924 / 1945 |
German army
officer killed in action |
|
Larry Melvyn Evans |
1932
/ 2010 |
Died from complications
following a gallbladder operation |
|
Lembit Oll |
1966
/ 1999 |
Suicide by jumping out of the
window of his 5th story apartment |
|
Leonid Kubbel |
1891
/ 1942 |
Died in the
siege of Leningrad |
|
Leonid Stein |
1934
/ 1973 |
Stroke |
|
Lionel Kieseritzky |
1806
/ 1856 |
Died in a mental asylum |
|
Louis Bourdonnais |
1795
/ 1840 |
Died of
diabetes |
|
Louis Paulsen |
1833
/ 1891 |
Died of
diabetes |
|
Max Euwe |
1901
/ 1981 |
Heart attack |
|
Miguel Najdorf |
1910
/ 1997 |
Heart attack |
|
Mikhail
Botvinnik |
1911
/ 1995 |
Died of
cancer |
|
Mikhail Chigorin |
1850
/ 1908 |
Died of
diabetes |
|
Mikhail Tal |
1936
/ 1992 |
Died of
kidney failure in Moscow |
|
Nicholas
Rossolimo |
1910
/ 1975 |
Fell from flight of stairs
and
died of head injuries |
|
Nikolai
Grigoriev |
1895
/ 1938 |
Died from
appendicitis |
|
Nikolai Krylenko |
1885 / 1938 |
Executed
in Stalin’s purges |
|
Paolo Boi |
1528
/ 1598 |
Poisoned (murdered) in
Naples |
|
Paul Keres |
1916 / 1975 |
Died of a
heart attack returning
home from a tournament |
|
Paul Leonhardt |
1877 / 1938 |
Died of a
heart attack while playing
Chess at a Chess
club |
|
Paul Morphy |
1837 / 1884 |
Died of a
stroke while taking a cold bath |
|
Pierre Saint-Amant |
1800 / 1872 |
Died after a
fall from his carriage |
|
Ricardo Calvo |
1943 / 2002 |
Esophagus cancer |
|
Richard Reti |
1889 / 1929 |
Died of
scarlet fever |
|
Robert
J. Fischer |
1943
/ 2008 |
Died of
kidney failure in Iceland |
|
Rosendo Balinas |
1941
/ 1998 |
Liver cancer |
|
Rudolf Rezso
Charousek |
1873
/ 1900 |
Died
of tuberculosis at age 27 |
|
Salo Landau |
1903 / 1944 |
Killed by Nazis at a German
concentration camp |
|
Samuel Boden |
1826 / 1882 |
Died of
typhoid fever |
|
Samuel Reshevsky |
1911 / 1992 |
Heart attack |
|
Stefan Zweig |
1881 / 1942 |
Committed
suicide |
|
Thomas Barnes |
1825 / 1874 |
Complications with too much weight loss |
|
Tigran Petrosian |
1929 / 1984 |
Died of
cancer |
|
Tony Miles |
1955 / 2001 |
Died in his sleep at age 46,
he was diabetic |
|
Vera Menchik |
1906 / 1944 |
Died in the V1 German
bombing of London |
|
Viktor Korchnoi |
1931 / 2016 |
Passed away after being admitted to a hospital suffering from a haemorrhage |
|
Vladimir Bagirov |
1936 / 2000 |
Heart attack while playing Chess in Finland |
|
Vladimir Petrov |
1907 / 1945 |
Died in a
prison camp in Russia |
|
Vladimir Simagin |
1919 / 1968 |
Died of a
heart attack while
playing in a tournament |
|
Vsevolod Rauzer |
1908 / 1941 |
Died
of tuberculosis at age 33 |
|
Vugar Gashimov |
1986 / 2014 |
Brain tumor / Age 27 |
|
William Henry Russ |
1833 / 1866 |
Shot himself in the head |
