Deaths
- Lodewijk Prins, Dutch chess master and arbiter - November 11
- Lembit Oll, Estonian Grandmaster and world top 50 player - May 17
- Ortvin Sarapu, "Mr New Zealand Chess", 20-time NZ chess champion – April 13
- Gary Koshnitsky, Australian Master - September 17
- Catharina Roodzant, three-time winner of the women's Dutch championship – February 24
- Ramchandra Sapre, former national champion of India and chess columnist - May 18
- Francisco José Pérez Pérez, Spanish/Cuban master – September 11
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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)
“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)
“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)