Births
- January 8 - Ovidiu Pecican, Romanian historian, essayist, novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, playwright, and journalist
- January 20 - R. A. Salvatore, science fiction and fantasy author
- March 15 - Ben Okri, poet and novelist
- March 11 - Dejan Stojanović, Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist
- March 18 - Frédéric-Yves Jeannet, novelist and critic
- April 30 - Alessandro Barbero, Italian historian, novelist and essayist
- May 1 (probable) - Yasmina Reza, French novelist and dramatist
- May 3 - Ben Elton, comedian, novelist and screenwriter
- June 13 - Maurice G. Dantec, science fiction author
- August 27 - Jeanette Winterson, novelist
- September 9 - Matti Rönkä, Finnish TV journalist and novelist
- October 31 - Neal Stephenson, science fiction writer
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