This week in chess history

• 5 October 1912 (born) Fritz Fischer, German physician and convicted war criminal (died 2003)
• 6 October 1982 (born) Levon Aronian, Armenian chess grandmaster
• 6 October 1886 (born) Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (died 1960)
• 8 October 1903 (born) Georgy Geshev, Bulgarian chess player (died 1937)
• 8 October 2024 (died) Pat Fischer, American football player (born 1940)
• 9 October 1993 (born) Wesley So, Filipino-American chess grandmaster
• 9 October 1938 (born) Heinz Fischer, Austrian academic and politician, 11th President of Austria
• 9 October 1852 (born) Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)
• 9 October 1962 (died) Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and engineer (born 1885)
• 10 October 1953 (born) Aleksander Veingold, Estonian chess player and coach
• 10 October 2014 (died) Valeri Karpov, Russian ice hockey player (born 1971)

Source: Wikipedia, for the next seven days.