Deaths
- January 15 - Neil M. Gunn, novelist, dramatist and critic, 81
- February 22 - Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist and short story writer, 73
- March 6 - Pearl S. Buck, novelist, 80
- March 18 - Roland Dorgelès, French novelist and memoirist, 87
- March 26 - Sir Noël Coward, dramatist and humorist, 73
- April 9 - Warren Lewis, author, Inkling, and brother of C. S. Lewis, 77
- April 28 - Jacques Maritain, French philosopher, 90
- May 21 - Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian poet and linguist, 79
- June 9 - John Creasey, crime writer
- June 30 - Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer
- July 29 - Henri Charrière, Papillon author
- September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien, fantasy writer
- September 23 - Pablo Neruda, poet, 69
- September 29 - W. H. Auden, poet
- October 6 - Margaret Wilson, novelist (born 1882)
- October 28 - Sergio Tofano, dramatist
- December 9 - Anthony Gilbert, crime writer
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