1939 in Chess - Deaths

Deaths

• 1939 - Katarina Beskow-Froeken died in Sweden. Women's World Sub-Champion in 1927.
• 1939 - Iosif Januschpolski (Yanushpolsky) died.
• 2 February 1939 - Bernhard Gregory died in Berlin, Germany.
• 8 February 1939 - Salomon Langleben died in Warsaw, Poland.
• 11 February 1939 - Jan Kvíčala died in Czecho-Slovakia.
• 28 May 1939 - Hans Fahrni died in Ostermundingen, Switzerland. 1st to play 100 simultaneously, 1911.
• 7 August 1939 - Paul Krüger died in Germany.
• August 1939 - Alexei Alekhine killed by NKVD in the Soviet Union.
• September 1939 - Jan Kleczyński, Jr. died of a heart attack during a bombing of Warsaw (World War II).
• September 1939 - Karol Piltz died during the siege of Warsaw.
• after 17 September 1939 - Kalikst Morawski died during the Soviet occupation of Lvov.
• 26 September 1939 - Ottó Bláthy died in Budapest. Created longest problem, 290 moves.
• 4 October 1939 - Ludvig Collijn died in Stockholm. President of the Swedish Chess Association from 1917 to 1939.