Jan Hein Donner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jan Hein Donner

Dutch chess grandmaster

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1927

Place of Birth: The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 27-Nov-1988

Profession: writer, columnist, chess player

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner (July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch chess grandmaster (GM) and writer.
Donner was born in The Hague and won the Dutch Championship in 1954, 1957, and 1958.
FIDE, the World Chess Federation, awarded him the GM title in 1959.
He played for the Netherlands in the Chess Olympiads 11 times (1950–1954, 1958–1962, 1968, 1972–1978).
He was the uncle of the former Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Piet Hein Donner. On August 24, 1983 Donner suffered a stroke, which he wrote happened "just in time, because when you are 56 you do not play chess as well as you did when you were 26".
After surviving the stroke, he went to live in Vreugdehof, which he described as "a kind of nursing-home".
He was unable to walk, but had learned to type with one finger, and wrote for NRC Handelsblad and Schaaknieuws.The character Onno Quist in the novel (and film) The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch is based on Donner.