Deaths
- Vincenzo Castaldi, Italian IM, many times the national champion - January 6
- Mariano Castillo, Chilean Master and multiple winner of the national championship - September 23
- Abraham Kupchik, U.S. Master and Olympiad medal winner - November 26
- Ludwig Rodl, German Master and Olympiad medal winner - March 23
- Adolf Seitz, German-Argentine Master mostly active in the 1920s and 1930s - April 6
- Alois Wotawa, Austrian composer of chess problems and endgame studies - April 12
- Wilhelm Schönmann, German Master, active in the early part of the 20th century - ?
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
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)
“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)
“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)