On This Day: April 27

John Thursby 1861
James Pierce 1892
Albert Kauders 1912
Erkki Puhakka 1929
Julio Pancaldo 1932
Vladimir Erokhin 1937
Heikki Westerinen 1944
Gennadi Timoshchenko 1949
John Erskine 1960
Darius Ruzele 1968
Mykola Kolesnik 1969
Pavel Smirnov 1982
Rudolf Queck 2003
Miroslav Filip 2009
Viktor Gavrikov 2016
Dieter Kutzborski 2019

1957: Smyslov defeats Botvinnik to become world champion