On This Day: May 26

Einar Letzen 1898
Pietro Rossi 1924
Jaroslav Brada 1925
Josef Vancura 1930
Juraj Brabec 1938
Rolf Richter 1941
Nikolay Gerasimenko 1947
Edmund Makkai 1949
Jorge Szmetan 1950
Yakov Zilberman 1954
Valery Salov 1964
Friso Nijboer 1965
Gideon Stahlberg 1967
Alexander Kalinin 1968
Mikulas Manik 1975
Sven-Hendrik Lossin 1979
Hermann Albrecht 1982
Grigor Grigorov 1987
Vahap Sanal 1998
Gerd Giebel 2004
Arturo Pomar 2016
Hillel Aloni 2017


1894: Lasker defeats Steinitz to become world champion