Deaths
- Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Ukrainian honorary Grandmaster, Correspondence player and trainer - September 21
- Eero Book, Finnish player, honorary Grandmaster and six-time national champion - January 7
- Guillermo Garcia-Gonzalez, Cuban Grandmaster, three-time national champion - October 26
- Ernest Klein, former British champion and author - ?
- Emil Josef Diemer - German player and openings theorist - October 10
- Geza Fuster, Hungarian-Canadian International Master - ?
- Ernest Pogosyants, Ukrainian chess problemist and endgame study specialist - August 16
- Baldur Honlinger, prominent Austrian player of the 1920s-1950s - March 12
- Heinrich Reinhardt, German-Austrian player - June 14
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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)
“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)