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

1990: Kasparov defeats Karpov to retain world championship title