Births
- January 1 - J. D. Salinger, novelist (died 2010)
- January 7 - Robert Duncan, poet (died 1988)
- January 25 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer (died 2010)
- March 24 - Robert Heilbroner, author of The Worldly Philosophers (died 2005)
- May 17 - Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian (died 1995)
- June 6 - Helen Forrester, memoirist and novelist (died 2011)
- June 28 - Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu, Romanian philosopher, novelist, essayist and dramatist (died 1989)
- July 15 - Iris Murdoch, novelist (died 1999)
- July 23 - Davis Grubb, novelist and short story writer (died 1980)
- July 31 - Primo Levi, Italian novelist and memoirist (died 1987)
- September 26 - Matilde Camus, Spanish poet (died 2012)
- October 22 - Doris Lessing, British novelist
- November 23 - P. F. Strawson, philosopher (died 2006)
- November 26 - Frederik Pohl, science fiction author
- November 29 - Frank Kermode, literary critic (died 2010)
- December 17 - Charlotte Jay, Australian suspense writer (died 1996)
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