Deaths
- Ilya Rabinovich evacuated from Leningrad but died of malnutrition in a hospital in Perm, Russia (World War II).
- Nikolai Riumin died in Omsk, Russia.
- Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz died in Latvia.
- Samuil Vainshtein died during the Siege of Leningrad.
- Henryk Friedman died probably in a Nazi concentration camp, General Government.
- Alexander Wagner died probably in Eastern Galicia, General Government.
- 23 February - Max Blümich died in Falkenberg/Elster, Germany.
- 7 March - Sergey Belavenets died in Novgorod, Russia. Killed in combat action. Moscow City Champion 1932, 1937, 1938.
- 8 March - José Raúl Capablanca died at the Mount Sinai Hospital, in New York City. World Chess Champion 1921-1927.
- 18 April - Leonid Kubbel died during the siege of Leningrad. Russian chess problemist.
- 29 April – Anatol Tschepurnoff died in Helsinki, Finland.
- 5 June - István Abonyi died in Budapest, Hungary.
- 8 July - Emil Zinner died in Nazi Majdanek concentration camp, General Government.
- 9 July - Julio Balparda died in Uruguay.
- August - Alexey Troitsky, founder of modern study composition, died of starvation in Leningrad, Russia.
- 16 August - Leon Rosen died in New York, USA.
- 20 August - Rudolf Spielmann died in Sweden (in exile).
- 21 August – Vladimir Sournin died in Baltimore, USA.
- 3 September - Leon Schwartzmann arrested in France, died in Auschwitz.
- December - Sergey Lebedev died in Russia.
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