Deaths
- March 11 – Viacheslav Ragozin (1908–1962), 53, Soviet GM, International Arbiter, chess writer, and World Correspondence Chess Champion 1956–59.
- April 3 – Ernst Grünfeld (1893–1962), 68, Austrian GM and opening theorist, eponym of the Grünfeld Defence.
- May 4 – Josef Rejfiř (1909–1962), 52, Czechoslovak IM.
- July 27 – Roy Turnbull Black (1888–1962), American chess player and judge who defeated Capablanca in 1911.
- October 9 – Milan Vidmar (1885–1962), 77, Yugoslav/Slovene GM.
- October 25 – Abe Turner (1924–1962), 38, American chess expert, murdered at the offices of Chess Review.
- November 30 – Ossip Bernstein (1882–1962), 80, Russian born French GM and a financial lawyer.
- December – Menachem Oren (1901–1962), Polish-born Israeli chess player and mathematician.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“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)