Deaths
- March 26 - Katharine Lee Bates, lyricist of "America the Beautiful" (born 1859)
- April 16 - Sir John Morris-Jones, Welsh grammarian & poet (born 1864)
- April 21 - Lucy Clifford, British novelist (born 1846)
- June 8 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (born 1861)
- June 22 - Alfred Brunswig, German philosopher (born 1877)
- June 25 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist & novelist (born 1858)
- July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian novelist & poet (born 1874)
- July 31 - José de Castro, Portuguese journalist (born 1868)
- August - Mary MacLane, Canadian feminist writer (born 1881)
- December 10 - Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (born 1898) (suicide)
- date unknown
- Max Lehmann, German historian (born 1845)
- Hans Prutz, German historian (born 1843)
- Grace Rhys, Irish novelist & poet (born 1865)
- Dallas Lore Sharp, American nature writer (born 1870)
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