October 30 in Chess History

14 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 9 deaths from chess history on October 30.

October 30, 1970: Xie Jun was born. On this day in chess history.

197056 years ago today

Xie Jun was born

Women's World Chess Champion

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Card photo: Andrzej Filipowicz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 2004Women's Chess Olympiad 2004Ended
  2. 2022FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022Ended
  3. 2025Chess World Cup 2025Began · won by Javokhir Sindarov

Born on October 30

  1. 1804Karl II, Duke of BrunswickDuke of Brunswick
  2. 1882Oldřich DurasCzech chess player
  3. 1884John DunlopNew Zealand chess player
  4. 1904Marie Jeanne FrigardFrench chess player
  5. 1917Giuseppe PrimaveraItalian chess player
  6. 1920Alexander CherepkovChess player
  7. 1939Zygmunt PiochPolish chess player
  8. 1957Ľubomír FtáčnikCzechoslovak chess player
  9. 1963Gilberto MilosBrazilian chess grandmaster
  10. 1968Jorge MiraSpanish physicist and television presenter
  11. 1970Xie JunWomen's World Chess Champion
  12. 1978Herminio Herráiz HidalgoSpanish chess player
  13. 1986Bart MichielsBelgian chess player
  14. 2000Jeffery XiongAmerican chess player

Died on October 30

  1. 1923Bonar LawPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923
  2. 1950Boris VerlinskySoviet chess player
  3. 1972Jerzy LewiPolish chess player
  4. 1989Karen GrigorianChess player
  5. 2003Aidyn GuseinovChess player
  6. 2010Ingi Randver JóhannssonIcelandic chess player
  7. 2010Yevhen BohdanovUkrainian chess composer and journalist
  8. 2012Emilis ŠlekysLithuanian chess player
  9. 2017Algimantas ButnoriusLithuanian 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.