Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 31 – F. R. Scott, 85
- January 16 – Robert Fitzgerald, 74 (born 1910), American poet and translator of ancient Greek and Latin.
- March 30 – J. V. Cunningham (born 1911) was an American poet, literary critic, and teacher
- April 17 – Basil Bunting, 85
- May 12 – Josephine Miles (born 1911), AmericanMiles (June 11, 1911 – May 12, 1985), poet and literature critic
- May 25 – Robert Nathan, 91, of kidney failure
- August 14 – Alfred Hayes, 74, of meningitis, poet of the labor song "Joe Hill"
- August 19 – Yamazaki Hōdai 山崎方代 (born 1914), Japanese, Showa period tanka poet
- October 26 – Kikuko Kawakami 川上 喜久子 (born 1904), Japanese, Showa period novelist, short-story writer and poet, a woman
- October 31 – Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek
- November 25 – Geoffrey Grigson, 80
- December 2 – Philip Larkin, 63, of throat cancer, English poet
- December 7 – Robert Graves, 90 (born 1895), English writer and poet
- December 22 – Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon (born 1911), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
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The many deaths one must have died
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