Deaths
- ca. March - Dawid Przepiórka killed in a mass execution by the Nazis in Palmiry.
- ca. March - Achilles Frydman killed in a mass execution in Palmiry.
- ca. March - Stanisław Kohn killed in a mass execution in Palmiry.
- ca. March - Moishe Lowtzky killed in a mass execution in Palmiry.
- 5 May - Willi Schlage died in Berlin, Germany.
- 4 July - Sammi Fajarowicz died in the Jewish Hospital in Leipzig (Leipziger Israelische Krankenhaus) of tuberculosis. Fajarowicz Gambit.
- 18 July – Davide Marotti, winner of the first Italian Championship
- 11 September - Peter Fyfe died in Glasgow, Scotland. Fyfe Gambit.
- 30 November - Wilhelm Hilse died in Germany.
- December - Walter John died in Berlin, Germany.
- December - František Schubert died in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
- Moshe Hirschbein, Polish master, died by the Nazis.
- Max Walter, Slovak master, died by the Nazis.
- Arthur Kaufmann, Austrian master, died by the Nazis.
- Kalikst Morawski, Polish master, died probably in Siberia.
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“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)
“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)