Deaths
- Emil Ungureanu, Romanian International Master.
- 7 January Elaine Pritchard, English Woman International Master, four-time winner of the British Women's Chess Championship, and five-time Olympian for the British women's team dies at age 86.
- 13 April Miguel Albareda Creus Spanish chess player, eight-time champion of Catalonia and 1958 Olympian for Spain, dies at age 93.
- 21 March Yuri Razuvaev Russian chess player and trainer, dies at age 66.
- 4 May Haukur Angantýsson Icelandic IM and winner of the 1976 Icelandic Chess Championship and 1979 World Open dies at age 63.
- 17 June Nathan Divinsky, Canadian chess player and writer, two-time Olympian for Canada, dies at age 86.
- 15 July Jacqueline Piatigorsky, chess player, patron, sculptor and author, dies at age 100.
- 14 August Svetozar Gligorić Serbian and Yugoslav Grandmaster dies in Belgrade at age 89.
- 11 September Rein Etruk three-time Estonian chess champion dies in Tallinn at age 74.
- 1 November Chen Zude, president of the Chinese Chess Association, dies at age 68.
- 18 November Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya Soviet-born American Woman Grandmaster dies at age 55. Played in the Women's World Chess Championship 1986, losing to Maia Chiburdanidze.
- 3 December Georgy Borisenko, Soviet correspondence grandmaster and theoretician, dies at age 90.
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