Deaths
- Leonid Stein, a leading Soviet GM and former world championship candidate - July 4
- Vasily Panov, Soviet IM, renowned as a theoretician, writer and journalist - January 13
- Hans Kmoch, Austrian IM, chess writer and occasional second to Alekhine - February 13
- Folke Rogard, Swedish lawyer and former President of FIDE - June 11
- Braslav Rabar, Croatian IM, former national champion, writer and theoretician - December 6
- Al Horowitz, American IM, renowned writer and chess columnist - January 18
- Manuel Golmayo Torriente, Cuban-Spanish master and International Arbiter - March 7
- Alexandru Tyroler, Hungarian-Romanian master, winner of first Romanian Championship - February 3
- Markas Luckis, Lithuanian-Argentine master, Olympiad medal winner - February 9
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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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)