May 16 in Chess History

14 birthdays, 5 matches, tournaments and games and 6 deaths from chess history on May 16.

May 16, 1988: Atousa Pourkashiyan was born. On this day in chess history.

198838 years ago today

Atousa Pourkashiyan was born

Iranian chess player

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1907Ostend 1907 chess tournamentBegan · won by Siegbert Tarrasch
  2. 19391939 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Mikhail Botvinnik
  3. 1940Women US Championship 1940Ended · won by Adele Rivero
  4. 20132013 European Individual Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Alexander Moiseenko
  5. 2024Grand Chess Tour 2024Began · won by Alireza Firouzja

Born on May 16

  1. 1854David ForsythNew Zealand chess player
  2. 1875Dirk BleijkmansDutch chess player
  3. 1933Jefim RotsteinGerman chess player
  4. 1934Jozef BoeyBelgian chess player
  5. 1937Anthony SaidyChess player
  6. 1950Biljana DekicAustralian chess player
  7. 1960Roman TomaszewskiPolish chess player
  8. 1973Evgeni YanevBulgarian chess player
  9. 1979Cyril MarcelinFrench chess player
  10. 1987Calvin KlaasenSouth African chess player
  11. 1988Atousa PourkashiyanIranian chess player
  12. 1989Betül Cemre YıldızTurkish chess player
  13. 1991Tereza RodshteinCzech chess player
  14. 2007Marc Andria MaurizziFrench chess player

Died on May 16

  1. 1938Erich BrunnerChess composer
  2. 1955Harold MurrayBritish chess historian
  3. 1988Ernő GerebenHungarian-Swiss chess player
  4. 1999Lembit OllEstonian chess player
  5. 2003Bogdan ŚliwaPolish chess grandmaster
  6. 2023Boris KhanukovUkrainian 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.