On This Day: April 16

Esteban Puig y Puig 1878
Antonio Bottacchi 1900
Vladimir Pachman 1918
Viktor Astakhov 1931
Nikolai Shalnev 1944
Goran Antunac 1945
Slim Bouaziz 1950
Yochanan Afek 1952
Vladimir Neistadt 1959
Boris Kantsler 1962
Joerg Hickl 1965
Sebastian Siebrecht 1973
Borko Lajthajm 1976
Zivko Milovanovic 1978
Joseph Peckover 1982
Andrey Kvon 1989
Marco Baldauf 1990
Zaur Mammadov 1994
Volodymyr Vetoshko 1998
Lorenzo Lodici 2000
Colin Crouch 2015


2025: Ju Wenjun defeats Tan Zhongyi to become five-time Women’s World Champion