Deaths
- January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American/British poet and dramatist, 76
- January 12 – Lorraine Hansberry, journalist and dramatist, 34 (cancer)
- March 13 – Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop and poet, 83
- May 3 – Howard Spring, novelist, 76
- June 5 – Thornton Burgess, children's author, 91
- June 13 - Martin Buber, Austrian-born Jewish philosopher, 87
- July 9 – Jacques Audiberti, French Absurdist dramatist, poet and novelist, 66
- July 28 – Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic, 70
- July 30 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese novelist, 79
- July 31 – John Metcalfe, novelist and short story writer, 73
- August 17 – Jack Spicer, poet, 40 (alcohol-related)
- October 8 – Thomas B. Costain, popular historian, 80
- October 15 – Randall Jarrell, poet, 54 (road accident)
- October 30 – Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., American historian, 77
- November 8 – Dorothy Kilgallen, journalist, 52 (alcohol/drug overdose)
- November 20 – Katharine Anthony, biographer, 87
- December 16 – W. Somerset Maugham, dramatist, novelist and short story writer, 91
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“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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