Births
- Gata Kamsky, Russian-American GM and world championship candidate - June 2
- Sergei Rublevsky, Russian GM and former national champion - October 15
- Konstantin Sakaev, Russian GM and former world youth champion - April 13
- Matthew Sadler, English GM and former British champion - May 5
- Sofia Polgar, Hungarian IM and WGM, middle sister of Zsuzsa and Judit - November 2
- Sergey Volkov, Russian GM and former Russian champion - February 7
- Igor Miladinović, Serbian GM and former world junior champion - January 25
- Wang Pin, Chinese WGM and many times national women's champion - December 11
- Qin Kanying, Chinese WGM and many times national women's champion - February 2
- Mohamad Al-Modiahki, GM from Qatar, first Arabic grandmaster - June 1
- Artur Kogan, Ukrainian-Israeli GM who has lived in many countries - January 29
- Roland Schmaltz, German GM and champion of speed chess - November 15
- Reefat Bin-Sattar, Bangladeshi GM, the country's third grandmaster - July 25
- Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi GM, the country's second grandmaster - ?
- Maria Manakova, Russian born WGM and model, has lived in Serbia - March 1
- Ryan Palmer, Former Jamaican champion and coach living in the UK - ?
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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.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)