Deaths
- Paul Keres, Estonian GM, for many years a prominent world championship candidate - June 5
- Friedrich Samisch, German master, unofficial Austrian championand noted theorist - August 16
- Lajos Steiner, Hungarian-Australian IM and former champion of both countries - April 22
- Nicolas Rossolimo, Multi-national GM who won the French and Paris championships - July 24
- Karel Opocensky, Czech IM and International Arbiter, four times the national champion - November 16
- Hans Johner, Swiss IM who won the national championship many times in the 1930s - December 2
- Vladimir Vukovic, Croatian IM and International Arbiter, also writer and theoretician - November 18
- Georg Kieninger, German IM, three times winner of the national championship - January 25
- Abraham Baratz, Romanian-French Master who won the Paris Championship - ?
- Norman Tweed Whitaker, American IM who twice shared the US Open title - May 20
- John Morrison, Canadian Master and many times winner of the national championship - March 1
- Karl Fabel, German player, distinguished composer of chess problems - March 3
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“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)