Deaths
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- January 19 – Maria Zaturenska, 80, of heart failure
- March 11 – Horace Gregory, 83
- March 15 – Edgell Rickword (born 1898, English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor who was one of the leading communist intellectuals active in the 1930s
- March 18 – Yaho Kitabatake 北畠 八穂 (born 1903), Japanese, Showa period poet and children's fiction writer
- April 20 – Archibald MacLeish, 89 (born 1892), American
- June 5 – Nishiwaki Junzaburo 西脇順三郎 (born 1894), Japanese, Shōwa period poet and literary critic
- June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, 76 (born 1905), of a heart ailment, American
- June 18 – Djuna Barnes, 90, American writer and poet
- October 22 – Richard Hugo, 58, of leukemia
- November 13 – Babette Deutsch, 87, American
- December 3 – Bishnu Dey (born 1909) Bengali poet, prose writer and movie critic
- date not known – P'Bitek
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