May 4 in Chess History

22 birthdays, 2 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on May 4.

May 4, 1970: Boris Alterman was born. On this day in chess history.

197056 years ago today

Boris Alterman was born

Chess Grandmaster

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 19631963 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Yuri Nikolaevsky
  2. 2023Grand Chess Tour 2023Began · won by Fabiano Caruana

Born on May 4

  1. 1830Jules Arnous de RivièreFrench chess player
  2. 1850Emanuel SchiffersRussian chess player
  3. 1886Adrián García CondeMexican-British chess player
  4. 1909Ilya KanRussian chess player
  5. 1926Anna JurczyńskaPolish chess player
  6. 1929Palle NielsenDanish chess player
  7. 1938Janusz WodaPolish chess player
  8. 1948Ada van der GiessenDutch chess player
  9. 1951Heinz WirthensohnSwiss chess player
  10. 1964Joseph GallagherChess player
  11. 1966Emmanuel BricardFrench chess player
  12. 1966Petri KekkiFinnish chess player
  13. 1967Buenaventura VillamayorFilipino chess player
  14. 1970Boris AltermanChess Grandmaster
  15. 1970Toni NajdoskiMacedonian chess player
  16. 1974Silvia AlexievaFrench chess player
  17. 1976Daniel GormallyBritish chess player
  18. 1978Ognjen JovanićCroatian chess player
  19. 1987Gábor PappHungarian chess grandmaster
  20. 1991Tamir NabatyIsraeli chess player
  21. 2002Turmunkh MunkhzulMongolian chess player
  22. 2006Ilya MakoveevRussian chess player

Died on May 4

  1. 1937Damian RecaArgentine chess player
  2. 1958Yisrael Yosef KniazerChess player
  3. 1962Josef RejfířCzech chess player
  4. 1977Mikhail MukhinSoviet chess player
  5. 2012Haukur AngantýssonChess 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.