Deaths
- Wilhelm Orbach, German master, died in Auschwitz.
- Jorgen Moeller, Danish master, died in Denmark. Nordic Chess Champion (1899 and 1901), the Moeller Attack in the Giuoco Piano and the Moeller Defense in the Ruy Lopez.
- Nikoly Rudnev, Ukrainian master, died probably in Uzbekistan.
- 3 February – Albert Hodges, 1894 US Chess Champion
- ca. 9 February Dawid Daniuszewski, Polish master, died in the Lodz Ghetto.
- ca. 9 February Salomon Szapiro, Polish master, died in the Lodz Ghetto.
- 12 April – Roberto Grau died in Buenos Aires. South American and Argentine Champion.
- 3 June - Adolf Zinkl, Austrian master, died in Vienna.
- 27 June - Vera Menchik, the 1st Women's World Chess Champion, died in a German bombing raid, London, England.
- 27 June - Olga Menchik, the younger sister of Vera, died in a German bombing raid, London, England.
- 2 November - Karol Irzykowski, Polish master, died in Żyrardów.
- 9 November - Frank James Marshall, American grandmaster, died in Jersey City, USA.
- 29 December - Endre Steiner, Hungarian master, died in a Nazi concentration camp.
Read more about this topic: 1944 In Chess
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)