Deaths
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- January 14 – Dorothea Mackellar, 82, Australian poet and writer
- January 20 – David Stacton, 42
- January 25 – Yvor Winters, 67, American literary critic and poet
- February 16 – Jaime Sabartés, Spanish poet and longtime secretary to Pablo Picasso
- March 16 – Gunnar Ekelöf, 60, Swedish poet
- March 25 – Arnulf Øverland, 78, Norwegian poet
- April 26 – Donald Davidson, 74, American poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author who organized the Nashville circle of poets called the Fugitives and an overlapping group, the Southern Agrarians.
- April 28 – Winfield Townley Scott, 58, American poet
- May – Erik Lindegren 58, Swedish poet
- May 9 – George Hill Dillon, 62
- June 1 – Witter Bynner, 86, American poet, writer and scholar
- June 12 – Sir Herbert Edward Read, at 74, English poet and critic of literature and art.
- June 14 – Salvatore Quasimodo, 66, Italian poet
- November 17 – Mervyn Peake, 57, British modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator.
- December 10 – Thomas Merton (born 1915), American poet, author and Roman Catholic monk, in a freak accident in a visit to Bangkok, Thailand
- date not known – Eckart Peterich (born 1900), German
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