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:
“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)
“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)
“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)