Births
- January 26 - Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist & writer
- February 17 - Chaim Potok, American author (died 2002)
- February 18 - Len Deighton, British novelist
- April 1 - Milan Kundera, Czech-French novelist
- May 16 - Adrienne Rich, American poet and essayist
- June 11 - George Garrett, American poet & novelist (died 2008)
- July 31 - Lynne Reid Banks, British author
- August 18 - Anatoly Kuznetsov, Russian dissident novelist (died 1979)
- August 21 - X. J. Kennedy, American poet & translator
- August 27 - Ira Levin, American novelist & playwright (died 2007)
- August 29 - Thom Gunn, Anglo-American poet (died 2004)
- November - Steve Carter, American playwright
- November 13 - Theo Aronson, British biographer (died 2003)
- December 12 - John Osborne, English playwright & screenwriter (died 1994)
- December 16 - James Moore, Cornish author
- December 19 - Howard Sackler, American dramatist & screenwriter (died 1982)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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