On This Day: May 7

Friedrich Dubbe 1845
Abraham Schiffmann 1890
Max Judd 1906
Roger Diot 1923
Henry Davis 1954
Eric Lobron 1960
Bolat Asanov 1961
Gady Costeff 1961
Marat Makarov 1963
Ulrich Stephan 1970
Gevorg Harutjunyan 1981
Georg Becker 1984
Delia Duca 1986
Johan Salomon 1997
Vadim Vinokurov 2018
Yuri Averbakh 2022


1960: Tal defeats Botvinnik to become world champion