<List of premature chess deaths: (age) (born-deceased)>The following five Indian juniors all tragically lost their lives in the same road accident. (http://www.chathurangam.com/news/ap...)
(?) Kasipeta Sekhar
(8) Haricharan
(8) Maturi Hemamadhuri
(11) Dasari Minu (see http://www.chessbase.com/columns/co...)
(11) Mekala Abhinav (http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/...)
(17) Ian Duncan Wells (1964-1982)
(18) Anna Iodo (1987-2005)
(18) Gordon Thomas Crown (1929-1947)
(19) Jessie Gilbert (1987-2006)
(20) James A Leonard (1841-1862)
(21) Klaus Junge (1924-1945)
(21) Daniel Noteboom (1910-1932)
(23) Arnoldus Johannes van den Hoek (1921-1945)
(24) Mikhail Steinberg
(1952-1976)
(24) Paul Rudolf von Bilguer (1815-1840)
(24) Oscar Gelbfuhs (1852-1877)
(25) Pertti Poutiainen
(1952-1978)
(25) Norman Van Lennep (1872-1897)
(25) Max Malyuta (-2007) (no games to link; some information at http://www.rhodeislandchess.org/max...)
(25?) Bertil Malmgren
(1893-1918)
(26) Giovanni Martinolich (1884-1910)
(26) Rudolf Rezso Charousek (1873-1900)
(27?) James Rodney Phillips (1942-1969)
(27?) Alexander Evenson (1892-1919)
(27) Billy Colias (-1993)
(28?) Ilmar Raud (1913-1941)
(28) Gyula Breyer (1893-1921)
(28) Karen Asrian
(1980-2008)
(29) Cecil Valentine De Vere (1845-1875)
(29) Mikhail A Mukhin (1948-1977)
(30?) Johann Hermann Bauer (1861-1891)
(30) Karl A Walbrodt (1871-1902)
(31) Georg Rotlewi(1889-1920)
(31) Rudolf Swiderski(1878-1909)
(31) Georgy Tadzhikanovich Agzamov (1954-1986)
(32?) Malupande Lungu (1975-2007)
(32?) Yakov S Vilner (1899-1931)
(32?) Sergey Vesevolodovich Belavenets(1910-1942)
(32) Sammi Fajarowicz (1908-1940)
(33) Lembit Oll (1966-1999)
(33) Dr. Julius Perlis (1880-1913)
(33) Karl Helling (1904-1937)
(33) Harry Nelson Pillsbury(1872-1906)
(34?) Nikolai Nikolaevich Riumin (1908-1942)
(34?) Gioachino Greco (c:a 1600-1634)
(34) Harold Morton (1904-1940)
(34) Edgar Colle (1897-1932)
(35) Vladimir Petrov (1907-1943)
(35) Bela Perenyi
(-1988)
(36) Alexander Zaitsev (1935-1971)
(36) Guillermo Garcia Gonzales (1953-1990)
(37?) Sandor Boros (1907-1944)
(37) William Henry Kraus Pollock (1859-1896)
(37) Hermanis Karlovich Mattison (1894-1932)
(37) John Wisker (1846-1884)
(37) Alexander McDonnell (1798-1835)
(37) Carl Theodor Goering (1841-1879)
(38) Ernst Flechsig (1852-1890)
(38) Leonid Stein (1934-1973)
(38) Vera Menchik (1906-1944)
(38) Abe Turner (-1962)
(39) Wilhelm Hanstein (1811-1850)
(39) Salo Landau (1903-1943)
(39) Maxim Sorokin (1968-2007)
(39) Gerardo F Barbero (1961-2001)
(39) Henri Weenink (1892-1931)
(40) Alexey Vyzmanavin (1960-2000)
(40) Richard Reti (1889-1929)
(40) Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862)
(40) Elmer W Gruer (1890-1931)
(41) Bjorn Nielsen
(1907-1949)
(42) Karen Ashotovich Grigorian (1947-1989)
(42) Alexander Wittek (1852-1894)
(42) Hugo Suechting (1874-1916)
(42) Samuel Lipschutz
(1863-1905)
(43) Max Harmonist(1864-1907)
(43) Mark Liburkin (1910-1953) (selection of compositions: http://www.xs4all.nl/~dsu/mliburk1....)
(43) Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (1963-2006)
(43) Nikolay Dmitrievich Grigoriev (1895-1938)
(44) Carl Schlechter (1874-1918)
(45) Johannes Zukertort (1842-1888)
(45) Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais (1795-1840)
(46) Anthony Miles (1955-2001)
(46) Paul Morphy (1837-1884)
(46) Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky (1894-1941)
(47?) Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritsky
(1806-1853)
(47?) Frederick D Yates (1884-1932)
(47) Stefan Levitsky
(1876-1924)
(48) Aron Nimzowitsch (1886-1935)
(?) Aron (Aaron, Aharon) Zabludowski (Zabludovsky) (See e.g. http://www.zabludow.com/icchokmelme...) May or may not correspond to Zabludovsky and/or J Zabludowski
