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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