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Robert James Fischer 1943 - 2008

Robert James Fischer was born on March 9, 1943 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois United States, and died at age 64 years old on January 17, 2008 at Landspítali University Hospital Hringbraut Hringbraut, in Miðborg, Reykjavíkurborg Iceland. Robert Fischer was buried on January 21, 2008 at Laugardælakirkja in Laugardælir, Flóahreppur. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Robert James Fischer.

Robert James Fischer

March 9, 1943

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States

January 17, 2008

Landspítali University Hospital Hringbraut Hringbraut, in Miðborg, Reykjavíkurborg, 101, Iceland

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03/9

1943

Birthday

March 9, 1943

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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois United States

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Professional Career

He was an American chess grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion. He started playing chess when he was only about 6 years old in 1949. His parents got divorced when he was only 2,making his mother a single parent and having raise him and his sister on his own. He just had one sister,Joan Targ,who passed away in 1998 at 60 from a hemorrhagic stroke. He was with a woman named Miyoki Watai for about 30 years or so beforing marring her in 2004 and until his passing in 2008.
01/17

2008

Death

January 17, 2008

Death date

Kidney failure

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Landspítali University Hospital Hringbraut Hringbraut, in Miðborg, Reykjavíkurborg 101, Iceland
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2008

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January 21, 2008

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Laugardælakirkja in Laugardælir, Flóahreppur 803, Iceland
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Robert James Fischer lived 11 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 64.

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In 1943, in the year that Robert James Fischer was born, on March 31st, the Broadway musical Oklahoma! opened. Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (the first of their string of successful collaborations), audiences loved it. The musical ran for 2,212 performances originally and was made into a movie in 1954.

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In 1950, at the age of just 7 years old, Robert was alive when in February, Joe McCarthy gave a speech alleging that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who worked in the State Department. He went on to chair a committee that investigated not only the State Department but also the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the Voice of America, and the U.S. Army for communist spies - until he was condemned by the U.S. Senate in 1954.

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