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Mark Taimanov
Soviet chess player.
Born February 7th, 1926 in Kharkiv.
Died November 28th, 2016 at 90 years old in Saint Petersburg. [ref]
Occupations
actor, chess player, engineer, non-fiction writer, pianist
Wikipedia
Anything I’ve done that was ultimately worthwhile initially scared me to death. Betty Bender