Deaths
- February 3 – Robert Duncan, poet
- February 28 – Kylie Tennant, Australian novelist, playwright and historian
- March – Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish language poet
- April 12 – Alan Paton, novelist
- April 21 – I. A. L. Diamond, comedy writer
- May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction author
- June 10 – Louis L'Amour, western novelist
- July 12 – Joshua Logan, stage and film writer
- August 28 – Max Shulman, novelist, short-story writer and dramatist
- September 28 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist
- October 1 – Sacheverell Sitwell, art critic, brother of Edith Sitwell and Osbert Sitwell
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- Unknown date
- Frank Bonham, American western and young adult novelist
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“On almost the incendiary eve
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“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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