April 13 in Chess History

21 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on April 13.

April 13, 1963: Garry Kasparov was born. On this day in chess history.

196363 years ago today

Garry Kasparov was born

13th World Chess Champion

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 20082008 Dutch chess championshipEnded · won by Jan Smeets
  2. 2015U.S. Chess Championship 2015Ended · won by Hikaru Nakamura
  3. 2016U.S. Chess Championship 2016Began · won by Fabiano Caruana

Born on April 13

  1. 1859Viktor TietzCzech chess player
  2. 1867Adolf Georg OllandDutch chess player
  3. 1876Stepan LevitskyRussian chess player
  4. 1881Ernst HeilmannGerman politician
  5. 1889Efim BogoljubovRussian chess player
  6. 1914María Berea de MonteroArgentine chess player
  7. 1920Clara FriedmanRomanian-Israeli chess player
  8. 1924Jiří LinhartCzechoslovak swimmer
  9. 1932Margareta TeodorescuRomanian chess player
  10. 1943Tim KrabbéDutch journalist and novelist
  11. 1944Alexander MünninghoffDutch writer and journalist
  12. 1951Peter MarklandBritish chess player
  13. 1963Garry Kasparov13th World Chess Champion
  14. 1974Konstantin SakaevRussian chess player
  15. 1978Farrukh AmonatovTajikistani chess player
  16. 1983Gergely-Andras-Gyula SzaboRomanian chess player
  17. 1984Vladimir DobrovRussian chess player
  18. 1987Zehra TopelTurkish chess player
  19. 1988Gulmira DauletovaKazakhstani chess player
  20. 2002Ido GorshteinChess player
  21. 2003Maria MalickaPolish chess player

Died on April 13

  1. 1893Jean DufresneGerman chess player and chess composer
  2. 1999Ortvin SarapuEstonian–New Zealand chess player
  3. 2000Aivars GipslisLatvian chess player
  4. 2012Miguel Albareda CreusSpanish chess player
  5. 2024Joanna DworakowskaPolish chess player

Dates from Wikidata (CC0). Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card. Dates can differ between sources, especially before 1918 when Russia used the old calendar.