Deaths
- January 4 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher (born 1859)
- January 6 - F. R. Higgins, poet and theatre director (born 1896)
- January 13 - James Joyce, novelist and poet (born 1882)
- January 23 - John Oxenham, journalist, novelist and poet (born 1852)
- February 7 - Banjo Paterson, poet (born 1864)
- February 9 - Elizabeth von Arnim, novelist (born 1866)
- March 13 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, novelist and poet (born 1881)
- March 28 - Virginia Woolf, author (born 1882; suicide)
- June 1 - Hugh Walpole, novelist (born 1884; heart attack)
- June 15 - Evelyn Underhill, poet (born 1875)
- August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, author (born 1861)
- November 18 – Émile Nelligan, poet (born 1879)
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