Deaths
- January 17 – Bobby Fischer, 64, the 11th World Champion, dies in Iceland.
- May 24 – Bukhuti Gurgenidze, 74, Georgian GM and many time Georgian Champion.
- June 9 – Karen Asrian, 28, Armenian GM, three times Armenian Chess Champion, dies of a suspected heart attack in Yerevan.
- August 10 – Igor Zakharevich, 25, Russian GM.
- August 20 – Mario Bertok, 78, Croatian IM dies in a swimming accident in Jarun Lake, Zagreb.
- August 21/21 – Vladimir Bukal, 68, Croatian IM dies overnight in Zagreb. Bukal won the 2002 European Senior Championship.
- November 29 – Robert Wade, 87, winner of multiple New Zealand and British chess championships, IM and International Arbiter, dies in London of pneumonia.
- December 10 – Mark Diesen, 51, American IM and 1976 World Junior Champion.
- December 20 – Albin Planinc, 64, Yugloslav/Slovenian GM.
- December 24 – Hugh Myers, 78, American master and writer on unorthodox openings, dies in Davenport, Iowa.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)
“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)