Deaths
- Mikhail Botvinnik, leading Soviet Grandmaster and former world chess champion - May 5
- Lev Polugaevsky, leading Soviet Grandmaster and world championship candidate - August 30
- Harry Golombek, English Grandmaster, three-time British Champion, chess journalist, writer and World War II codebreaker - January 7
- Mario Monticelli, Italian chess Grandmaster and three-time national champion - June 30
- Sir Stuart Milner-Barry, English player, theoretician, writer, former President of the British Chess Federation and World War II codebreaker - March 25
- Genrikh Kasparyan, Armenian chess player and leading chess problem composer - December 27
- Gilles Andruet, International Master, former French Champion - August 22
- Nicolaas Cortlever, Dutch International Master - April 5
- Dr. Roza Herman, Polish chess master, twice the national Ladies' champion - ?
- Mario Napolitano, Italian master and leading correspondence chess player - October 31
- Dr. Miroslav Katetov, Czech mathematician and former Prague chess champion - December 15
- Pablo Moran, noted Spanish chess journalist and writer - November ?
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)