Deaths
- January 8 - Bruce Chatwin, travel writer and novelist
- February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director, writer
- March 14 - Edward Abbey, essayist
- March 27 - Malcolm Cowley, novelist and poet
- April 19 - Daphne du Maurier, writer
- April 25 - Norma Klein, author
- May 19 - C. L. R. James, journalist
- August 23 - R. D. Laing, psychologist and author
- August 26 - Irving Stone, novelist
- September 4 - Georges Simenon, Maigret author
- September 4 - Sir Ronald Syme, Classicist
- September 15 - Robert Penn Warren, poet and novelist
- September 30 - Horace Alexander, pacifist writer, 100
- October 13 - Cesare Zavattini, screenwriter
- December 19 - Stella Gibbons, novelist
- December 22 - Samuel Beckett, writer
- December 26 - Paul Jennings, humorist
- December - George Selden
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