Deaths
- Efim Geller, leading Soviet Grandmaster and former World Championship Candidate - November 17
- László Szabó, Hungarian Grandmaster and former world top 10 player - August 8
- Mona May Karff, seven times U.S. Women's Champion - January 10
- Carlos Guimard, Argentine Grandmaster, three times the national champion - ?
- Boris Blumin, twice champion of Canada - February 16
- Rosendo Balinas, Jr., Filipino Grandmaster, writer, journalist and lawyer - September 24.
- Leho Laurine, Estonian master and former national champion - January 31
- David Vincent Hooper, leading chess historian and former London Champion - May
- Tivadar Kardos, Hungarian chess problemist and author - May 15
- Joan Targ, sister of Bobby Fischer - June 2
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)