Births
- January 1 - Joe Orton, playwright (died 1967)
- January 9 - Wilbur Smith, novelist
- January 16 - Susan Sontag, novelist (died 2004)
- February 12 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer
- March 17 - Penelope Lively, novelist
- March 19 - Philip Roth, novelist
- April 14 - Boris Strugatsky, Russian sci-fi writer
- May 5 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, blockbuster author
- May 29 - Edward Whittemore, novelist (died 1995)
- June 20 - Claire Tomalin, journalist and biographer
- July 4 - David Littman, historian
- July 10 - Kevin Gilbert, Australian writer and artist (died 1993)
- July 21 - John Gardner, American writer (died 1982)
- August 13 - Madhur Jaffrey, actress and food writer
- September 19 - Gilles Archambault, Québécois novelist
- October 11 - David Daniels, poet (died 2008)
- November 13 - Peter Härtling, German writer
- December 2 - Kent Andersson, dramatist (died 2005)
- December 31 - Edward Bunker, crime novelist (died 2005)
- date unknown
- Halim Barakat, Arabic novelist
- Jim Barnes, Native American poet and translator
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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.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)