Aron Nimzowitsch

Aron Nimzowitsch was a Latvian born-Danish chess player and writer. In the late 1920s, Nimzowitsch was one of the best chess players in the world. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns and wrote a very influential book on chess theory: My System (1925–1927). Nimzowitsch's seminal work Chess Praxis, originally published in German in 1929, was purchased by a pre-teen and future World Champion Tigran Petrosian and was to have a great influence on his development as a chess player.

7 November 1886

Born on the same birth day (7 November): Al Attles • Alex Ribeiro • Armstrong Sperry • Calvin Borel • Constans II • Emanuele Luigi Galizia • Erik Balke • Erika Hendsel • Eugene Carson Blake • Jamie Drummond • John Benitez • Lucas Neff • Matthew Ryan (musician) • Pascal Leclaire • R. A. Lafferty • Richard G. Scott • Shyamaprasad • Stephen Greenblatt

Born in the same month (November 1886): Alexandre Stavisky • Dhirendranath Datta • Edward Joseph Collins • Günter Dyhrenfurth • Harold Nicolson • Hermann Broch • Karl von Frisch • Mary Wigman • René Guénon • Robert Hunter (golfer) • Sadae Inoue • Sakutarō Hagiwara • Tsuguharu Foujita • Walter Terence Stace