Deaths
- January 6 – Ida M. Tarbell, journalist
- January 8 – Joseph Jastrow, psychologist
- January 31 – Jean Giraudoux, dramatist
- February 10 – Israel Joshua Singer, Yiddish novelist
- February 12 – Olive Custance, poet (born 1874)
- March 5
- Max Jacob, poet and critic
- Alun Lewis, war poet (accidental shooting)
- March 28 – Stephen Leacock, economist
- May 3 – Anica Černej, Slovenian poet (born 1900) (concentration camp victim)
- May 12 – Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, "Q"
- May 16 – George Ade, journalist and dramatist
- June
- Joseph Campbell, poet (born 1879)
- Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, socialite and author
- June 9 – Keith Douglas, war poet (born 1920; killed in action)
- June 16 – Marc Bloch, historian (born 1886)
- July 31 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (born 1900)
- August 13 - Ethel Lina White, crime novelist (born 1876)
- September 13 – W. Heath Robinson, cartoonist and illustrator
- October 19 – Karel Poláček, writer, humourist, journalist
- November 15 – Edith Durham, travel writer (born 1863)
- December 17 – Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist (born 1893)
- December 30 – Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author
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