Death of chess players

Player's Name	Born/Death	Cause of Death
Abe Turner	1924 / 1962	Stabbed nine times in the back by a fellow employee at the Chess Review office.
Alexander Alekhine	1892 / 1946	Choked to death on a piece of meat.
Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky	1894 / 1941	Died in the siege of Leningrad while on a barge.
Alexander McDonnell	1798 / 1835	Died of Bright's disease.
Alexander Zaitsev	1935 / 1971	Died of thrombosis as a consequence of a leg operation.
Alexi Troitzky	1866 / 1942	Died of starvation during the siege of Leningrad.
Aron Nimzovich	1886 / 1935	Died of pneumonia.
Carl Schlechter	1874 / 1918	Died from pneumonia and starvation.
Curt von Bardeleben	1861 / 1924	Threw himself out the window of his boarding home.
David Bronstein	1924 / 2006	Died of a stroke in Minsk, Belarus at age 82.
David Przepiorka	1880 / 1940	Died in a mass execution outside Warsaw.
Ed Edmundson	1920 / 1982	Died of a heart attack while playing Chess on a beach in Hawaii.
Edgar Colle	1897 / 1932	Died after an operation for a gastric ulcer.
Efim Bogoljubov	1889 / 1952	Suffered a heart attack after a simultaneous display.
Frank Marshall	1877 / 1944	Died of a heart attack after leaving a Chess tournament.
Frederick Yates	1884 / 1932	Died in his sleep from a leak in a faulty gas pipe connection.
George Koltanowski	1903 / 2000	Heart failure at the age of 97.
George Mackenzie	1837 / 1891	Suicide: took an overdose of morphine.
Georgy Agzamov	1954 / 1986	Russian GM fell between some rocks at a beach and died.
Gideon Stahlberg	1908 / 1967	Died during the 1967 Leningrad International tournament.
Gyula Breyer	1893 / 1921	Died from heart disease.
Harry Pillsbury	1872 / 1906	Died of syphillis.
Herman Steiner	1905 / 1955	Died after a California State Championship game.
Howard Staunton	1810 / 1874	Died of a heart attack while writing a Chess book.
Janos Flesch	1933 / 1983	Died in a car wreck.
Johann Zukertort	1842 / 1888	Died of a stroke while playing Chess at a London coffee-house.
Johannes Minckwitz	1843 / 1901	Suicide: threw himself under a train.
Jose Capablanca	1888 / 1942	Died of a stroke while watching a skittles game at the Manhattan Chess Club.
Julius Perlis	1880 / 1913	Died in a mountain climb in the Alps.
Karel Treybal	1885 / 1941	Died a victim of the Nazis.
Klaus Junge	1924 / 1945	German army officer killed in action.
Leonid Kubbel	1891 / 1942	Died in the siege of Leningrad.
Louis Paulsen	1833 / 1891	Died of diabetes.
Mikhail Botvinnik	1911 / 1995	Died of cancer.
Mikhail Tal	1936 / 1992	Died of kidney failure in Moscow.
Mikhail Tchigorin	1850 / 1908	Died of diabetes.
Nicholas Rossolimo	1910 / 1975	Fell from flight of stairs and died of head injuries.
Nikolai Grigoriev	1895 / 1938	Died from appendicitis.
Nikolai Krylenko	1885 / 1938	Executed in Stalin's purges.
Paolo Boi	1528 / 1598	Poisoned (murdered) in Naples.
Paul Keres	1916 / 1975	Died of a heart attack returning home from a tournament.
Paul Leonhardt	1877 / 1938	Died of a heart attack while playing Chess at a Chess club.
Paul Morphy	1837 / 1884	Died of a stroke while taking a cold bath.
Pierre Saint-Amant	1800 / 1872	Died after a fall from his carriage.
Richard Reti	1889 / 1929	Died of scarlet fever.
Robert J. Fischer	1943 / 2008	Died of kidney failure in Iceland.
Rudolf Rezso Charousek	1873 / 1900	Died of tuberculosis at age 27.
Salo Landau	1903 / 1944	Killed by Nazis at a German concentration camp.
Samuel Boden	1826 / 1882	Died of typhoid fever.
Stefan Zweig	1881 / 1942	Committed suicide.
Tigran Petrosian	1929 / 1984	Died of cancer.
Tony Miles	1955 / 2001	Died in his sleep at age 46; he was diabetic.
Vera Menchik	1906 / 1944	Died in the V2 German bombing of London.
Vladimir Petrov	1907 / 1945	Died in a prison camp in Russia.
Vladimir Simagin	1919 / 1968	Died of a heart attack while playing in a tournament

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