Births
- January 23 - Derek Walcott, author
- February 17 - Ruth Rendell, writer
- March 8 - Douglas Hurd, politician and novelist
- July 13 - Sam Greenlee, author
- July 15 - Jacques Derrida, literary critic (died 2004)
- August 17 - Ted Hughes, poet (died 1998)
- September 25 - Shel Silverstein, poet (died 1999)
- October 10 - Harold Pinter, playwright (died 2008)
- November 1 - A. R. Gurney, dramatist
- November 5 - Clifford Irving, literary forger
- November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer, academic, and literary critic
- November 18 - J. G. Ballard, author (died 2009)
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