Births
- January 7 - Dionne Brand, Canadian poet
- February 10 - John Shirley, science fiction and horror writer
- February 18 - Peter Robinson, poet
- March 12 - Carl Hiaasen, author
- March 25 - John Tierney, New York Times journalist
- April 3 - Pieter Aspe, author of the "Inspector Van In" novels
- April 20 - Sebastian Faulks, English novelist
- May 19 - Victoria Wood, comedienne and writer
- July 29 - Frank McGuinness, dramatist and poet
- August 10 - Mark Doty, poet
- September 10 - Pat Cadigan, science fiction author
- September 23 - Nicholas Witchell, TV journalist
- November 5 - Joyce Maynard, memoirist and former lover of J. D. Salinger
- date unknown - George Dyson, science historian
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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