Births
- Vladimir Kramnik, Russian GM, former classical and undisputed world champion - June 25
- Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian GM and the FIDE 2005 world champion - March 15
- Alexander Onischuk, Ukrainian-American GM and former national champion - September 3
- Yury Shulman, Belarussian-American GM, winner of both national championships - April 29
- Roman Slobodjan, German GM and former world junior chess champion - January 1
- Nino Khurtsidze, Georgian WGM and two times the world junior girls' champion - September 28
- Tomasz Markowski, Polish GM, many times the national champion - July 30
- Alexandre Lesiege, Canadian GM and three times the national champion - August 18
- Wang Lei (chess player), Chinese WGM, four times the national women's champion - February 4
- Vladimir Georgiev, Bulgarian GM and distinguished coach - August 27
- Roy Fyllingen, Norwegian IM and former national champion - January 31
- Piotr Murdzia, Polish IM, multiple winner of the world chess solving championship - February 20
- Natalia Khoudgarian, Russian-Canadian WIM, Canadian Olympiad player - ?
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