Deaths
- January 16 - Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist, 61
- January 19 - Branislav Nušić, Serbian novelist and dramatist, 63
- January 29 - Armando Palacio Valdés, Spanish novelist and critic, 84
- February 13 - Momčilo Nastasijević, Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist, 43
- March 1 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet and novelist, 74
- April 19 - Sir Henry Newbolt, poet, 75
- April 21 - Lady Ottoline Morrell, literary hostess, 64
- May 26 - James Forbes, dramatist and screenwriter, 66
- June 26
- James Weldon Johnson, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist, 67
- E. V. Lucas, essayist and biographer, 70
- August 7 - Konstantin Stanislavski, theatre director, 75
- September 15 - Thomas Wolfe, novelist, 37 (tuberculosis)
- December 23 - Robert Herrick, American realist novelist, 70
- December 25 - Karel Čapek, science fiction author and dramatist, 48 (double pneumonia)
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