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May 24 in Chess History

19 birthdays, 0 matches, tournaments and games and 3 deaths from chess history on May 24.

May 24, 1973: Peter Heine Nielsen was born. On this day in chess history.

197353 years ago today

Peter Heine Nielsen was born

Danish chess player

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Born on May 24

1821Christiaan MessemakerDutch chess player
1875Victor WahltuchBritish chess player
1875Bruno Edgar SiegheimSouth African-German chess player
1884Benjamin BlumenfeldRussian chess player
1924Aleksander ArulaidEstonian chess player
1932Irén HönschHungarian chess player
1936Heinz LiebertGerman chess player
1955Igor ŠvõrjovEstonian chess player
1958Krum GeorgievBulgarian chess player
1961Alessandra RieglerItalian chess player
1964Arno ZudeGerman chess player
1972Julian RadulskiBulgarian chess player
1973Peter Heine NielsenDanish chess player
1974Christof SieleckiGerman chess player
1975Frank de la Paz PerdomoCuban chess player
1982Andreas SchenkGerman chess player
1988Diana ArutyunovaUkrainian chess player
1989Krishnam Raju GadirajuIndian speedsolver
1992Eric HansenCanadian chess player

Died on May 24

1935Harris Kirkland HandasydeScottish chess player
2008Bukhuti GurgenidzeSoviet chess player
2026Ján PlachetkaSlovak 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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