Deaths
- January 20 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin, American poet, essayist, novelist (born 1892)
- April 10 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French philosopher and essayist (born 1881)
- June 17 - Constance Holme, English novelist and dramatist (born 1880)
- June 19 - Adrienne Monnier, French poet and publisher (born 1892)
- June 21 - Roger Mais, Jamaican novelist (born 1905)
- August 2 - Wallace Stevens, American poet (born 1879)
- August 12 - Thomas Mann, German novelist (born 1875)
- September 20 - Robert Riskin, American dramatist and screenwriter (born 1897)
- October 18 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (born 1883)
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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
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The many deaths one must have died
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