Deaths
- January 16 - Johannes Gillhoff, German writer and educator (born 1861)
- February 27 - George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher (born 1844)
- March 2 - D. H. Lawrence, novelist and poet (born 1885)
- March 11 - Edward Franklin Albee II, theatre impresario (born 1857)
- March 12 - Alois Jirásek, novelist and dramatist
- April 14
- Sigurd Ibsen, politician and writer, son of Henrik Ibsen (born 1859)
- Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (born 1893)
- April 21 - Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate (born 1844)
- April 22 - Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet and novelist (born 1866)
- April 29 - Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (born 1902)
- May 17 - Herbert Croly, political writer (born 1869)
- June 9 - Arthur St. John Adcock, novelist (born 1864)
- June 23 - Israel Gollancz, Shakespeare scholar (born 1864)
- July 7 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes (born 1859)
- August 29 - William Archibald Spooner, originator of the "spoonerism" (born 1844)
- September - Karam Singh, Sikh historian (born 1884)
- September 4 - Vladimir Arsenyev, explorer and travel writer (born 1872)
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