Jan Timman

Jan Timman is a Dutch chess grandmaster who was one of the world's leading chess players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career, he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West". He has won the Dutch Chess Championship nine times and has been a Candidate for the World Chess Championship several times. He lost the title match of the 1993 FIDE World Championship against Anatoly Karpov.

14 December 1951

Born on the same birth date (14 December 1951): John Brown (basketball, born 1951)

Born on the same birth day (14 December): Alan Kulwicki • DK Metcalf • Didier Zokora • Gordon Greer • Margaret Chase Smith • Nikolay Basov • Patrik Sundström • William Bedford (basketball)

Born in the same month (December 1951): Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov • Anthony Phillips • George Donikian • Lasse Bengtsson • Mohammad Reza Aref • Nick Rose (runner) • Nozipho Schroeder • Nuala O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan • Pat Hill • Rehman Malik • Ria Stalman • Sally Emerson • Steve Perryman • Tim Webster • Willem de Blécourt