Birthday profile
French chess player
Alexandre Deschapelles (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ deʃapɛl]; March 7, 1780, in Ville-d'Avray near Versailles – October 27, 1847, in Paris) was a French chess player who, between the death of François-André Danican Philidor and the rise of Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, was probably the strongest player in the world.
Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.
Alexandre Deschapelles was born in 1780. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
These figures put everyday life in Alexandre Deschapelles's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.
| Measure | 1780 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 3.0M | 341 million |
This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, Chessgames, 365Chess. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.
Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.