On This Day: December 15

Gustav Neumann 1838
Henry Barry 1878
Oswald von Krobshofer 1883
Camil Seneca 1903
Rashid Nezhmetdinov 1912
Peter Kniest 1914
Horatio Caro 1920
Shlomo Seider 1933
Alexander Fica 1947
Ralph Bridgewater 1948
Eduard Prandstetter 1948
Villy Nielsen 1967
Martin Wessels 1969
Thomas Ricketts 1979
Alexey Oganesyan 1985
Djakhangir Agaragimov 1986
Peter Kniest 1993
Pier Basso 1997
Li Di 1999
Enrico Paoli 2005
Milunka Lazarevic 2018


1935: Euwe defeats Alekhine to become world champion