World Champions Lifespans in Numbers
| Philidor | Francois-Andre | 1726 | 1795 |
| Deschapelles | Alexandre | 1780 | 1847 |
| Bourdonnais | Louis | 1795 | 1840 |
| Steinitz | Wilhelm | 1836 | 1900 |
| Morphy | Paul | 1837 | 1884 |
| Lasker | Emanuel | 1868 | 1941 |
| Capablanca | Jose | 1888 | 1942 |
| Alekhine | Alexander | 1892 | 1946 |
| Euwe | Machgielis | 1901 | 1981 |
| Botvinnik | Mikhail | 1911 | 1996 |
| Smyslov | Vasily | 1921 | 2002 |
| Petrosyan | Tigran | 1929 | 1984 |
| Spassky | Boris | 1937 | 2002 |
| Fischer | Robert | 1943 | 2002 |
| Karpov | Anatoly | 1951 | 2002 |
| Kasparov | Garry | 1963 | 2002 |
| Tal | Mikhail | 1936 | 1992 |
| Vladimir | Kramnik | 1975 | 2002 |
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