1940 in Chess - Deaths

Deaths

  • ca. March - Dawid Przepiórka killed in a mass execution by the Nazis in Palmiry.
  • ca. March - Achilles Frydman killed in a mass execution in Palmiry.
  • ca. March - Stanisław Kohn killed in a mass execution in Palmiry.
  • ca. March - Moishe Lowtzky killed in a mass execution in Palmiry.
  • 5 May - Willi Schlage died in Berlin, Germany.
  • 4 July - Sammi Fajarowicz died in the Jewish Hospital in Leipzig (Leipziger Israelische Krankenhaus) of tuberculosis. Fajarowicz Gambit.
  • 18 July – Davide Marotti, winner of the first Italian Championship
  • 11 September - Peter Fyfe died in Glasgow, Scotland. Fyfe Gambit.
  • 30 November - Wilhelm Hilse died in Germany.
  • December - Walter John died in Berlin, Germany.
  • December - František Schubert died in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
  • Moshe Hirschbein, Polish master, died by the Nazis.
  • Max Walter, Slovak master, died by the Nazis.
  • Arthur Kaufmann, Austrian master, died by the Nazis.
  • Kalikst Morawski, Polish master, died probably in Siberia.

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