Births
- Xie Jun, Chinese GM and former Women's World Champion - October 30
- Boris Alterman, Soviet-Israeli GM, a highly rated tournament player of the 1990s - May 4
- Rune Djurhuus, Norwegian GM and former European Junior Champion - January 25
- Zbyněk Hráček, Czechoslovak GM, a former winner of the national championship - September 9
- Alisa Marić, Serbian WGM and IM, former Women's World Championship Candidate - January 10
- Mirjana Marić, Serbian WGM, former women's national and World Youth Champion - January 10
- Gilberto Hernández Guerrero, Mexican GM, for many years the country's strongest player - February 4
- Tiger Hillarp Persson, Swedish GM and former national champion - October 28
- Manuel Apicella, French GM and former national champion - April 19
- Zoltán Varga, Hungarian GM and former national champion - July 12
- Karsten Muller, German GM, a writer for Chessbase and noted expert on endgames - November 23
- Alberto David, Luxembourg GM, for many years the country's strongest player - March 26
- Yona Kosashvili, Georgian born GM who has also lived in Israel and Canada - July 3
- Lin Weiguo, Chinese IM and 3 times the national champion - July 25
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)