Deaths
- 1939 - Katarina Beskow-Froeken died in Sweden. Women's World Sub-Champion in 1927.
- 1939 - Iosif Januschpolski (Yanushpolsky) died.
- 2 February 1939 - Bernhard Gregory died in Berlin, Germany.
- 8 February 1939 - Salomon Langleben died in Warsaw, Poland.
- 11 February 1939 - Jan Kvíčala died in Czecho-Slovakia.
- 28 May 1939 - Hans Fahrni died in Ostermundingen, Switzerland. 1st to play 100 simultaneously, 1911.
- 7 August 1939 - Paul Krüger died in Germany.
- August 1939 - Alexei Alekhine killed by NKVD in the Soviet Union.
- September 1939 - Jan Kleczyński, Jr. died of a heart attack during a bombing of Warsaw (World War II).
- September 1939 - Karol Piltz died during the siege of Warsaw.
- after 17 September 1939 - Kalikst Morawski died during the Soviet occupation of Lvov.
- 26 September 1939 - Ottó Bláthy died in Budapest. Created longest problem, 290 moves.
- 4 October 1939 - Ludvig Collijn died in Stockholm. President of the Swedish Chess Association from 1917 to 1939.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)