Deaths
- Carlos Maderna, Argentine Master, twice the national champion - January 23
- Abram Model, Latvian-Russian Master, Leningrad champion and Botvinnik's trainer - February 16
- Donald Byrne, American IM and US Open champion, lost the "Game of the Century" to Fischer - April 8
- Clarice Benini, Italian Master, national champion, women's world championship contender - September 8
- József Szily, Hungarian IM, runner-up at first European championship - April 26
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“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)
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