Deaths
- January 15 – Herbert Avram (1913–2006), 92, United States.
- May 13 - Ratmir Kholmov (1925–2006), 80, Soviet/Russian Grandmaster.
- May 13 – Burt Hochberg (1933–2006), 73, chess writer and editor, editor of Chess Life.
- May 20 – Wolfgang Unzicker (1925–2006), 80, German Grandmaster, "world champion of amateurs".
- July 2 – René Letelier (1915–2006), 91, Chilean International Master.
- July 14 – Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (1963–2006), 43, Polish Grandmaster.
- July 23 – Rudolf Teschner (1922–2006), 84, German Grandmaster and chess writer.
- July 26 – Jessie Gilbert (1987–2006), 19, English Woman FIDE Master.
- August 14 – Adriaan de Groot (1914–2006), 92, Dutch chess master and psychologist.
- November 29 – Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska (1931–2006), 75, Polish Woman Grandmaster.
- December 5 – David Bronstein (1924–2006), 82, Soviet/Ukrainian Grandmaster and renowned chess writer, challenger in the 1951 World Championship match.
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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)
“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)