Deaths
- January 26 - Graça Aranha, Brazilian diplomat and writer (born 1868)
- March 27 - Arnold Bennett, novelist (born 1867)
- April 4 - André Michelin, originator of the Michelin Guide (born 1853)
- April 10 - Khalil Gibran, poet (born 1883)
- June 29 - Nérée Beauchemin, poet (born 1850)
- July 2 - Harald Høffding, Danish philosopher (born 1843)
- August 1 - Bertha McNamara, pamphleteer and bookseller (born 1853)
- August 15 - Delfín Chamorro, poet and language teacher (born 1863)
- August 27 - Frank Harris, author and editor (born 1856)
- August 31 - Hall Caine, novelist and dramatist (born 1853)
- October 13 - Ernst Didring, Swedish novelist (born 1868)
- October 21 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist (born 1862)
- November 3 - Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, epic poet (born 1855)
- November 5 - Ole Edvart Rolvaag, Norwegian-American writer (born 1876)
- December 10 - Enrico Corradini, novelist, essayist and journalist (born 1865)
- December 26 - Melvil Dewey, inventor of the most widely-used library classification system (born 1851)
- December 27 - Alfred Perceval Graves, author and collector of songs and ballads (born 1846)
- December 31 - Ieronim Yasinsky, writer, poet and essayist (born 1850)
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