Welcome! Check out today's deaths, recent deaths, or our deaths stats.

Feeling experimental? Head on over to our newest (and darkest) feature: Next-2-Die™ predictions

Alexander Kotov

Soviet chess player.

Born August 12th, 1913 in Tula.

Died January 8th, 1981 at 67 years old in Moscow.

Occupations
chess player, non-fiction writer
Wikipedia
Alexander_Kotov

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier. Xenophon