Births
- February 11 - Sidney Sheldon, novelist (died 2007)
- February 25 - Anthony Burgess, British novelist (died 1993)
- March 1 - Robert Lowell, American poet (died 1977)
- March 17 - Carlo Cassola, Italian novelist (died 1987)
- April 9 - Johannes Bobrowski, German author (died 1965)
- June 16 - Katharine Graham, journalist (died 2001)
- October 24 - Denys Val Baker, Welsh writer (died 1984)
- November 3 - Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish biographer and political writer (died 2008)
- December 21 - Heinrich Böll, German author, Nobel Prize winner (died 1985)
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