On This Day: January 17

Karel Traxler 1866
Valentin Marin y Llovet 1872
Frantisek Matousek 1879
William Napier 1881
Ziva Tomic 1912
Lev Loshinsky 1913
Mikhail Marandyuk 1949
Lothar Vogt 1952
Maya Chiburdanidze 1961
Mark Ridley 1961
Arseny Alavkin 1969
Giuseppe Brogi 1976
Nils van Dijk 2003
Maria Albulet 2005
Robert Fischer 2008
Erich Ernst 2011