Deaths
- Mikhail Botvinnik, leading Soviet Grandmaster and former world chess champion - May 5
- Lev Polugaevsky, leading Soviet Grandmaster and world championship candidate - August 30
- Harry Golombek, English Grandmaster, three-time British Champion, chess journalist, writer and World War II codebreaker - January 7
- Mario Monticelli, Italian chess Grandmaster and three-time national champion - June 30
- Sir Stuart Milner-Barry, English player, theoretician, writer, former President of the British Chess Federation and World War II codebreaker - March 25
- Genrikh Kasparyan, Armenian chess player and leading chess problem composer - December 27
- Gilles Andruet, International Master, former French Champion - August 22
- Nicolaas Cortlever, Dutch International Master - April 5
- Dr. Roza Herman, Polish chess master, twice the national Ladies' champion - ?
- Mario Napolitano, Italian master and leading correspondence chess player - October 31
- Dr. Miroslav Katetov, Czech mathematician and former Prague chess champion - December 15
- Pablo Moran, noted Spanish chess journalist and writer - November ?
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)