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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“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
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