Deaths
- February 6 – James Hadley Chase, novelist
- March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer
- April 7 – Carl Schmitt, political theorist
- July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate
- August 14 – Alfred Hayes, novelist and poet
- August 30 – Taylor Caldwell, novelist
- October 24 – László Bíró, inventor of the ballpoint pen
- November 3 – John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, historian
- November 25 – Geoffrey Grigson, poet and critic
- December 7 – Robert Graves
- date unknown
- Hedley Bull, economist
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