Deaths
- January 12 – Daniël Noteboom, 21, Dutch player, namesake of the Noteboom Variation of the Slav Defense
- April 20 – Edgard Colle, 34, Belgian player, namesake of the Colle System
- April 22 – Alexander Fritz, 79, German player, namesake of the Fritz Variation of the Two Knights Defense
- April 22 – Sándor Takács, 39, Hungarian player
- June 15 – Louis van Vliet, Dutch player
- November 4 – Rudolf Loman, 71, Dutch player, winner of several unofficial Dutch Championships
- November 10 – Frederick Yates, 48, English chess player and six-time British Champion
- November 25 – Fritz Riemann, 73, German player
- November 16 – Hermanis Matisons, 38, Latvian player and problemist
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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)
“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)
“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)