1967 in Literature - Deaths

Deaths

  • February 8 – Victor Gollancz, publisher
  • February 28 – Henry Luce, publisher
  • March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, muse of Gertrude Stein
  • May 12 – John Masefield, Poet Laureate
  • June 4 – J. R. Ackerley, journalist
  • June 7 – Dorothy Parker, humorist
  • July 22 – Carl Sandburg, historian and poet
  • August 2 – Giles Romilly, journalist
  • August 9 – Joe Orton, dramatist, murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell
  • August 29 – Sidney Bradshaw Fay, historian, author
  • September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, poet, author
  • September 24 – Robert van Gulik, Judge Dee author
  • September 29 - Carson McCullers, novelist
  • October 8 – Vernon Watkins, poet
  • October 9 – André Maurois, novelist
  • October 14 – Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's author
  • November 17 – Bo Bergman, poet
  • November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, poet
  • unknown date – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, killed in the Nigerian-Biafran War

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