Deaths
- January 12 – Robert Harbin, author of many books on origami
- March 1 – Paul Scott, Raj Quartet author
- March 24 – Leigh Brackett, science fiction writer
- April 14 – F. R. Leavis, literary critic
- May 1 – Sylvia Townsend Warner, poet and novelist
- May 12 – Louis Zukofsky, modernist poet
- June 18 – Walter C. Alvarez, medical author
- September 15 – Edmund Crispin, crime writer
- September 28 – Pope John Paul I, author of Illustrissimi under his real name of Albino Luciani
- November 15 – Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author
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