AFebruary 16 1963
The Kingston Whig-Standard, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Saturday, February 16, 1963
DEATHS: Dr. Ossip Bernstein has died, aged 80. The last survivor of the grandmasters famous in the early years of this century, he outlived O. Duras and the much younger Dr. Milan Vidmar.
He died on November 30th [1962] in a little village in the Pyrenees where he had gone to recuperate and the sad news took weeks to get around.
Born at Zhitomir in Russia, he had lived half his life in France, adopting French nationality in 1932.
His greatest success was to share first place with Akiba Rubinstein at Ostend in 1907, ahead of Mieses and Niemtsovitch. A great raconteur and bon viveur, he played only as an amateur throughout.
