Births
- 7 January – Ivan Radulov in Burgas, Hungarian GM
- 29 January – Hans-Joachim Hecht in Luckenwalde, German GM, two-time German Champion
- 29 January – Li Shongjian, Chinese chess player
- 1 March – Leroy Dubeck in Orange, New Jersey, President of the United States Chess Federation (1969–1972)
- 14 March – Stewart Reuben, British chess player, organiser, and arbiter
- 1 June – Yaacov Bernstein, Israeli chess player
- 27 August – Tüdeviin Üitümen, Mongolian IM
- 15 November – Charles Kalme in Riga, American IM
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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