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July 25 in Chess History

14 birthdays, 1 match, tournament or game and 3 deaths from chess history on July 25.

July 25, 1985: Salomėja Zaksaitė was born. On this day in chess history.

198541 years ago today

Salomėja Zaksaitė was born

Lithuanian chess player

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Card photo: Andreas Kontokanis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

19881988 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Garry Kasparov

Born on July 25

1894Hans KmochAustrian-Dutch chess player and writer
1896Jacob GemzøeDanish chess player
1897André MuffangCivil engineer, manager and chess player
1928Apolonia LitwińskaPolish chess player
1929John RoycroftBritish chess composer
1945Slobodan MartinovićSerbian chess player
1949Mihail-Viorel GhindăRomanian chess player
1950Julio KaplanArgentine-born Puerto Rican US grandmaster
1963Julian HodgsonBritish chess player
1969Oleg KorneevRussian chess player
1970Lin WeiguoChinese chess player
1974Reefat Bin-SattarBangladeshi chess player
1980Dmitry SvetushkinMoldovan chess player
1985Salomėja ZaksaitėLithuanian chess player

Died on July 25

1910Giovanni MartinolichItalian chess player
1938Arthur KaufmannAustrian chess player
1963Gösta StoltzSwedish 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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