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Robert Hübner

1948 - 2025

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Robert Hübner (6 November 1948 – 5 January 2025) was a German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist. He was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Hübner is the 42nd most popular chess player (up from 85th in 2019), the 1,764th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,648th in 2019) and the most popular German Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Robert Hübner ranks 42 out of 461. Before him are Vassily Ivanchuk, Savielly Tartakower, Friðrik Ólafsson, Bent Larsen, Vlastimil Hort, and Borislav Ivkov. After him are Lyudmila Rudenko, Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, Alexander McDonnell, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Jan Timman, and László Szabó.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Robert Hübner ranks 146. Before him are Hema Malini, Tony Gatlif, Joschka Fischer, Hans Rosling, Devlet Bahçeli, and Jimmy Choo. After him are Robert Jordan, Ram Baran Yadav, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Peter Robinson, Robert Trump, and Bonnie Bedelia. Among people deceased in 2025, Robert Hübner ranks 78. Before him are Lea Massari, Kit Bond, Mauricio Funes, James Harrison, Pierre Nora, and Trần Đức Lương. After him are Thanin Kraivichien, Ted Kotcheff, Renato Corsetti, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Jeannot Szwarc, and Fred Stolle.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Robert Hübner ranks 1,764 out of 7,253. Before him are Eugen Jochum (1902), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), Hans Burgkmair (1473), August Sander (1876), Kathrine Switzer (1947), and Gottfried John (1942). After him are Hermann Paul (1846), Elisabeth of Swabia (1205), Ludwig Börne (1786), Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1739), Georg Stumme (1886), and Barbara Sukowa (1950).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Germany

Among chess players born in Germany, Robert Hübner ranks 1. After him are Louis Paulsen (1833), Friedrich Sämisch (1896), Jean Dufresne (1829), Jacques Mieses (1865), Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935), Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), Sonja Graf (1908), Wolfgang Unzicker (1925), Hermann Pilnik (1914), Bernhard Horwitz (1807), and Boris Gulko (1947).

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