Births
- 26 March – Vlatko Kovačević, Croatian/Yugoslav GM
- 1 April – Ilse Guggenberger, Colombian WIM, many time Colombian Women's Champion
- 6 April – Shimon Kagan in Tel Aviv, Israeli IM
- 19 April – Michael Valvo in New York, American IM active in computer chess
- 12 May – Dragoljub Velimirović in Valjevo, Serbian/Yugoslav GM
- 17 June – Dusan Rajkovic, Yugoslavian/Serbian GM
- 19 August – Milan Vukic, Yugoslavian/Bosnian GM
- 11 November – Bill Goichberg, President of the United States Chess Federation (USCF)
- 27 November – Vlastimil Jansa in Prague, Czech GM
- Larry Parr, American chess writer and editor
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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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