Deaths
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- January 15 – Sydney Goodsir Smith (born 1975), New Zealand–Scots poet, artist, dramatist and novelist who wrote poetry in literary Scots often referred to as Lallans; a major figure of the Scottish Renaissance
- January 18 – Chester Kallman, 53
- January 22 – Charles Reznikoff, 81, American Objectivist poet
- March 10 – Louis Sissman, 48, of Hodgkin's disease
- March 12 – Lloyd Frankenberg, 67
- March 22 – Stanley Young, 69
- April 9 – Saneatsu Mushanokōji 武者小路 実篤 實篤, sometimes known as "Mushakōji Saneatsu"; other pen-names included "Musha" and "Futo-o" (born 1885), Japanese, late Taishō period and Showa period novelist, playwright, poet, artist and philosopher
- April 28 – Richard A. W. Hughes, British poet, author and playwright
- May 10 – Roque Dalton, executed
- May 11 – Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi (born 1884), Japanese, haiku poet in the Taishō and Showa periods
- August 19 – Jan Nisar Akhtar, 62, Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, a lyricist for Bollywood and father of psychiatrist and poet Salman Akhtar
- August 29 – Kazi Nazrul Islam (also spelled "Kazi Nozrul Islam"), 77 (born 1899), Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher best known as the Bidrohi Kobi ("Rebel Poet"), popular among Bengalis and considered the national poet of Bangladesh
- September 24(?) – Pat Lowther, Canadian poet murdered by her husband, Roy Lowther
- October 15 – James McAuley, Australian poet, academic, journalist, literary critic
- October 18 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana (born 1895), Indian poet writing in Tegulu; popularly known as the Kavi Samraat ("Emperor of Poetry")
- December 8 – Henryk Jasiczek (born 1919), Polish journalist, poet, writer and dissident
- Also:
- Anne Elder
Read more about this topic: 1976 In Poetry
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