Deaths
- January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer and Nobel Laureate (1907) (born 1865)
- February 8 - Rahel Sanzara, German dancer, actress and novelist (born 1894; cancer)
- February 23 - Lidia Veselitskaya (V. Mikulich), Russian novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and translator (born 1857)
- March 1 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet, musician and novelist (born 1872)
- March 16 - Marguerite Durand, French actress and journalist (born 1864)
- April 30 - A. E. Housman, poet (born 1859)
- June 11 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy writer (born 1906; suicide)
- June 12 - M. R. James, writer of ghost stories (born 1862)
- June 14
- G. K. Chesterton, journalist, poet, critic and Christian apologist (born 1874)
- Maxim Gorky, Russian dramatist (born 1868)
- August 15 - Grazia Deledda, Sardinian writer and Nobel Laureate (1926) (born
- August 19 - Federico García Lorca, dramatist and poet (born 1898; shot by Nationalist militia)
- November 12 - Stefan Grabiński, Polish horror writer ("the Polish Poe"; born 1887)
- December 10 - Luigi Pirandello, dramatist and novelist (born 1867)
- December 28 - John Cornford, Communist poet (born 1915; killed in Spanish Civil War, circumstances uncertain)
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
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