Deaths
- January 15 – Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist, 59 (heart attack)
- February 14
- Julian Huxley, biologist and author, brother of Aldous Huxley, 87
- Sir P. G. Wodehouse (born 1881), English comic novelist – creator of Jeeves and Wooster, 93
- February 20 – Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, Russian author, 92
- March 3 - T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, 87
- March 13 – Ivo Andrić (born 1892), Serbo-Croatian novelist and Nobel laureate of 1961
- May 21 - A. H. Dodd, hanesydd, 83
- June 8 – Murray Leinster, science fiction writer, 78
- September 20 – Saint-John Perse, poet and Nobel laureate of 1960
- October 5 – Constance Malleson, actress and writer
- October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, historian, 86
- November 13 – R. C. Sherriff, dramatist, 79
- November 19 – Elizabeth Taylor, novelist, 63 (cancer)
- November 27 – Ross McWhirter, journalist and joint author of the Guinness Book of Records, 50 (assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).)
- December 4 – Hannah Arendt, philosopher, 69
- December 7 – Thornton Wilder, novelist and dramatist, 78
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