Deaths
- January 17 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet, 56 (heart attack)
- February 16 - Frank Prewett, Canadian poet, 68
- March 3 - Pierre Benoît, novelist, 75
- April 24 - Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (Generation of '27), 63
- May 26 - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, poet, 83
- June 2 - Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardener, 70
- June 27 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet and critic, 58
- July 6 - William Faulkner, American novelist, 64
- July 21 - G. M. Trevelyan, historian, 86
- July 27 - Richard Aldington, World War I poet and novelist, 70
- August 9 - Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, 85
- September 3 - E. E. Cummings, poet, 67
- September 23 - Patrick Hamilton, dramatist, 58 (cirrhosis of the liver and kidney failure)
- December 3 - Dame Mary Gilmore, poet and journalist, 97
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