Deaths
- Victor Soultanbeieff, Russian-Belgian chess master, five times the Belgian Champion – February 9
- Georgy Lisitsin, Soviet IM, three times Leningrad Champion – March 20
- Kazimierz Makarczyk, Polish chess master, former national champion – May 27
- Ado Kraemer, German chess master and problemist – June 25
- Sir George Thomas, English master, twice British Champion and an accomplished sportsman – July 23
- Kenneth Harkness, chess arbiter, organizer, and writer – October 4
- Mary Bain, Hungarian-American master, former women's world championship challenger – October 26
- Jerzy Lewi, Polish chess master, former national champion – October 30
- Gedali Szapiro, Polish-Israeli chess master, played for both countries in Olympiads – December 28
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)