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January 21 in Chess History

13 birthdays, 2 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on January 21.

January 21, 1967: Artashes Minasian was born. On this day in chess history.

196759 years ago today

Artashes Minasian was born

Armenian chess player

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Matches, tournaments and games

19811980 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Alexander Beliavsky
200868th Armenian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Karen Asrian

Born on January 21

1797Ignazio CalviItalian chess player
1919Vakhtang KarseladzeGeorgian chess player
1949Adelquis Remón GayCuban chess player
1952Mikhail UmanskyRussian chess player
1966Ennio ArlandiItalian chess player
1966Henrik DanielsenDanish-Icelandic chess grandmaster
1967Artashes MinasianArmenian chess player
1967Stanislav SavchenkoUkrainian chess grandmaster
1967Neil McDonaldBritish chess player
1968Ning ChunhongChinese chess player
1971Guntis JankovskisLatvian chess player
1990Emre CanTurkish chess player
2004Frederik SvaneGerman chess grandmaster

Died on January 21

1979Hans-Hilmar StaudteGerman chess player (1911-1979) ; affiant in the RuSHA Trial (NMT 8)
1988Ramón Rey ArdidSpanish chess player
1990Elod MacskasyHungarian-born Canadian Master-level chess player and mathematician
2009Ursula WasnetskyGerman chess player
2017Cristina Adela FoișorRomanian 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.

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