by Bill Wall
 (http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/death.htm)

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.

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.

Alexi Troitzky

1866 / 1942

Died of starvation during the
siege of Leningrad.

Aron Nimzovich

1886 / 1935

Died of pneumonia.

Carl Schlechter

1874 / 1918

Died from pneumonia and starvation.

Curt von Bardeleben

1861 / 1924

Threw himself out the window
of his boarding home.

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.

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.
Efim Bogoljubov 1889 / 1952 Suffered a heart attack after a
simultaneous display.
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 Died during the 1967 Leningrad
International tournament.
Gyula Breyer 1893 / 1921 Died from heart disease.
Harry Pillsbury 1872 / 1906 Died of syphillis.
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.
Janos Flesch 1933 / 1983 Died in a car wreck.
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.
Julius Perlis 1880 / 1913 Died in a mountain climb in the Alps.
Karel Treybal 1885 / 1941 Died a victim of the Nazis.
Klaus Junge 1924 / 1945 German army officer killed in action.
Leonid Kubbel 1891 / 1942 Died in the siege of Leningrad.
Louis Paulsen 1833 / 1891 Died of diabetes.
Mikhail Botvinnik 1911 / 1995 Died of cancer.
Mikhail Tal 1936 / 1992 Died of kidney failure in Moscow.
Mikhail Tchigorin 1850 / 1908 Died of diabetes.
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.
Richard Reti 1889 / 1929 Died of scarlet fever.
Robert J. Fischer 1943 / 2008 Died of kidney failure in Iceland.
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.
Stefan Zweig 1881 / 1942 Committed suicide.
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 V2 German bombing of London.
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.

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