On This Day: June 14

Sir George Thomas 1881
Alberto Mari 1892
Comins Mansfield 1896
Rui de Carvalho Nascimento 1914
Nicolaas Cortlever 1915
Wolfgang Dittmann 1933
Isaak Birbrager 1935
Dieter Kutzborski 1947
Gerard Doukhan 1954
Miodrag Mladenovic 1964
Wang Zili 1968
Leon Fontaine 1976
Giovanni Vescovi 1978
Igor Bondarevsky 1979
Martin van Essen 1980
Mikhail Krylov 1987
Karthikeyan Pandian 1990
Olga Girya 1991


1934: Alekhine defeats Bogoljubow to retain world championship title