Deaths
- 31 January – A. A. Milne, author (born 1882)
- 25 March – Robert Newton, film actor (born 1905)
- 30 March – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, inventor (born 1875)
- 17 May – Austin Osman Spare, magician (born 1886)
- 18 May – Maurice Tate, cricketer (born 1895)
- 20 May – Max Beerbohm, theatre critic (born 1872)
- 22 June – Walter de la Mare, poet, short story writer and novelist (born 1873)
- 22 September – Frederick Soddy, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
- 16 December – Nina Hamnett, artist (born 1890)
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