Deaths
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- January 18 – Ary dos Santos (born 1937), Portuguese
- February 6 – Jorge Guillén
- February 8 – Ishizuka Tomoji 石塚友二 the kanji (Japanese writing) is a pen name of Ishizuka Tomoji, which is written with the different kanji 石塚友次, but in English there is no difference (born 1906), Japanese, Showa period haiku poet and novelist
- February 17 – Jesse Stuart, 76 (born 1906), American, from a stroke
- February 26 – Richard Lattimore, 77, of cancer
- March 3 – Tatsuko Hoshino 星野立子 (born 1903), Japanese, Showa period haiku poet and travel writer; founded Tamamo, a haiku magazine exclusively for women; in the Hototogisu literary circle; haiku selector for Asahi Shimbun newspaper; contributed to haiku columns in various newspapers and magazines (a woman)
- April 15 – Sir William Empson, 77 (born 1906 in poetry), English
- May 19 – Sir John Betjeman, 77 (born 1906), of Parkinson's disease
- July 2 – George Oppen, 76 (born 1908), of Alzheimer's disease
- September 29 – Hal Porter, Australian writer, novelist, playwright and poet, at 73
- December 14 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet
- date not known – Richard Brautigan 49, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The exact date of his suicide is unknown, but it is speculated that Brautigan ended his life on September 14. His body was not found until October 25.
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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