Deaths
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- March 26 – Noël Coward, 73, English actor, playwright, poet and composer of popular music, of a heart attack
- May 20 – Charles Brasch, 63, New Zealand poet, literary editor, and arts patron
- June 4 – Arna Bontemps, 70 (born 1902, American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance, of a heart attack
- August 17 – Conrad Aiken, 84, of a heart attack
- September 2 – J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, poet, author and academic
- September 23 – Pablo Neruda, 69, Chilean writer, poet and Communist politician, from leukemia
- September 28 – W. H. Auden, 66, English poet, often cited as one of the most influential of the century
- October 17 – Ingeborg Bachmann (born 1926) Austrian poet and author
- November 22 – Ramon Guthrie, 77,
- November 23 – Francis Webb, 48, Australian poet
- November 24 – John G. Neihardt (born 1881), American author and poet
- date not known – Kenneth Allott, Welsh poet, academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold
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