On This Day: December 31

Amos Burn 1848
Joel Fridlizius 1869
Bruno Kantorowicz 1885
Donald Smedley 1933
Herman Jonsson 1936
Konrad Erlinger 1944
Valerian Onitiu 1948
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky 1954
Mikael Gronroos 1955
Max Otto 1957
Ivan Kiss 1963
Vlatko Bogdanovski 1964
Carl Ahues 1968
Jennifer Shahade 1980
Milenko Dukic 1997
Artur Gartser 1998
Ion Murarasu 2010
Alexander Khasin 2016
Gabor Kallai 2021


1990: Kasparov defeats Karpov to retain world championship title