Births
- Joël Lautier, a leading French GM, once a regular player on the elite tournament circuit - April 12
- Vladislav Tkachiev, Soviet-French GM, former European Individual Champion - November 9
- Sergei Tiviakov, Soviet-Dutch GM, former Dutch Champion - February 14
- Peter Heine Nielsen, Danish GM, former highest rated Nordic player - May 24
- Aleksej Aleksandrov, Belarusian GM, former national and European junior champion - May 11
- Peng Xiaomin, Chinese GM, former national champion - April 8
- Jacob Aagaard, Danish-Scottish GM, former British champion - July 31
- José González García, Mexican GM - August 12
- Stanislav Kriventsov, Soviet-Canadian IM, a chess coach and world series poker player - November 2
- Frode Elsness, Norwegian IM, 2008 Norwegian Champion - June 15
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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)