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From David Bronstein To Abhimanyu Mishra: Grandmasters With "Latest Birthdates"

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This small funny table of is not the same as "the youngest grandmaster", even though they obviously overlap. Instead of "youngest ever grandmaster", it's "youngest living grandmaster".

The table may be not entirely full, since I only know the year of GM title awarding, and there could have been instances when a younger GM got their title later in the year than another older GM who was nevertheless younger than the previous record holder. These possible instances are shown in italic.

Year Player Country Birthday
1950 David Bronstein USSR  19th February 1924
1952 Efim Geller USSR  8th March 1925
1952 Tigran Petrosian USSR  17th June 1929
1955 Aleksandar Matanovic Yugoslavia  25th May 1930
1955 Borislav Ivkov Yugoslavia  12th November 1933
1955 Oscar Panno Argentina  17th March 1935
1955 Boris Spassky USSR  30th January 1937
1958 Bobby Fischer USA  9th March 1943
1965 Vlastimil Hort Czechoslovakia  12th January 1944
1965 Florin Gheorghiu Romania  6th April 1944
1970 Robert Huebner West Germany  6th November 1948
1970 Ljubomir Ljubojevic Yugoslavia  2nd November 1950
1970 Anatoly Karpov USSR  23rd May 1951
1971 Rafael Vaganian USSR  15th October 1951
1972 Henrique Mecking Brazil  23rd January 1952
1975 Rainer Knaak East Germany  16th March 1953
1975 Alexander Beliavsky USSR  17th December 1953
1976 Anthony Miles England  23rd April 1955
1977 Alexander Kochyev USSR  25th March 1956
1977 Larry Christiansen USA  27th June 1956
1977 Amador Rodriguez Cespedes Spain  8th September 1956
1979 Jesus Nogueiras Santiago Cuba  17th July 1959
1980 Artur Yusupov USSR  13th February 1960
1980 Yasser Seirawan USA   24th March 1960
1980 Garry Kasparov USSR  13th April 1963
1984 Nigel Short England  1st June 1965
1985 Kiril Georgiev Bulgaria  28th November 1965
1985 Simen Agdestein Norway  15th May 1967
1987 Ivan Sokolov Yugoslavia  13th June 1968
1988 Vassily Ivanchuk USSR  18th March 1969
1988 Viswanathan Anand India  12th December 1969
1989 Michael Adams England  17th November 1971
1990 Alexei Shirov USSR  4th July 1972
1990 Joel Lautier France  12th April 1973
1990 Gata Kamsky USA  2nd June 1974
1992 Veselin Topalov Bulgaria  15th March 1975
1992 Vladimir Kramnik Russia  25th June 1975
1992 Judit Polgar Hungary  23rd July 1976
1993 Zoltan Almasi Hungary  29th August 1976
1993 Gabriel Schwartzman Romania  23rd October 1976
1994 Helgi Ass Gretarsson Iceland  18th February 1977
1994 Alexander Morozevich Russia  18th July 1977
1994 Peter Leko Hungary  8th September 1979
1997 Rustam Kasimdzhanov Uzbekistan  5th December 1979
1997 Etienne Bacrot France  22nd January 1983
1998 Ruslan Ponomariov Ukraine  11th October 1983
2000 Alexander Grischuk Russia  31st October 1983
2000 Luke McShane England  7th January 1984
2000 Bu Xiangzhi China  10th December 1985
2001 Pentala Harikrishna India  10th May 1986
2001 Andrei Volokitin Ukraine  18th June 1986
2001 Teimour Radjabov Azerbaijan  12th March 1987
2002 Humpy Koneru India  31st March 1987
2002 Farhad Tahirov Azerbaijan  12th April 1987
2003 Hikaru Nakamura USA  9th December 1987
2003 Sergey Karjakin Ukraine  12th January 1990
2004 Magnus Carlsen Norway  30th November 1990
2006 Le Quang Liem Vietnam  13th March 1991
2006 Parimajan Negi India  9th February 1993
2007 Wesley So Philippines  9th October 1993
2008 Hou Yifan China  27th February 1994
2009 Dariusz Swiercz Poland  31st May 1994
2009 Yu Yangyi China  8th June 1994
2009 Anish Giri Netherlands  28th June 1994
2010 Ray Robson USA  25th October 1994
2010 Jorge Cori Peru  30th July 1995
2010 Richard Rapport Hungary  25th March 1996
2011 Daniil Dubov Russia  18th April 1996
2011 Illya Nyzhnyk Ukraine  27th September 1996
2012 Suri Vaibhav India  8th February 1997
2013 Mikhail Antipov Russia  10th June 1997
2013 Grigory Oparin Russia  1st July 1997
2013 Jan-Krzysztof Duda Poland  26th April 1998
2013 Wei Yi China  2nd June 1999
2014 Sam Sevian USA  26th December 2000
2016 Parham Maghsoodloo Iran  11th August 2000
2016 Bogdan-Daniel Deac Romania  8th October 2001
2017 Aryan Chopra India  10th December 2001
2017 Kirill Shevchenko Ukraine  22nd September 2002
2017 Awonder Liang USA  9th April 2003
2018 Alireza Firouzja Iran  18th June 2003
2018 Arjun Erigaisi India  3rd September 2003
2018 Nihal Sarin India  13th July 2004
2018 Nodirbek Abdusattorov Uzbekistan  18th September 2004
2018 Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa India  10th August 2005
2019 Javokhir Sindarov Uzbekistan  8th Deccember 2005
2019 Dommaraju Gukesh India  29th May 2006
2021 Abhimanyu Mishra USA  5th February 2009