Deaths
- January 9 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer
- January 30 Gerald Durrell, British naturalist and writer
- January 31 - George Abbott, writer, director and producer
- February 4 - Patricia Highsmith, crime novelist
- February 12 - Robert Bolt, dramatist
- February 21 - Calder Willingham, writer
- February 23 - James Herriot, writer of "Vet" series
- April 14 - Brian Coffey, poet
- June 14 - Roger Zelazny, American writer of fantasy and science fiction
- July 16
- May Sarton - American writer
- Stephen Spender, poet
- August 3 - Edward Whittemore, writer
- August 19 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and writer
- August 29 - Michael Ende, fantasy novelist
- October 13 - Henry Roth, novelist and short story writer
- October 22 - Kingsley Amis, novelist
- November 13 - Mary Elizabeth Counselman, American author and poet
- November 16 - Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian
- November 22 - Margaret St. Clair, science fiction writer
- December 2 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist
- December 30 - Heiner Müller, dramatist
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