Deaths
- January 22 – Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet
- January 23 – Northrop Frye, literary critic
- January 29 – Yasushi Inoue, historian
- February 24 – John Daly, journalist, game show host
- March – Paul Engle, novelist
- April 3 – Graham Greene
- April 12 – James Schuyler, poet
- April 29 – Claude Gallimard, French publishing magnate
- May 3 – Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist
- July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
- August 17 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist and translator
- September 24 – Dr. Seuss
- October 11 – Steven Jesse Bernstein, performance poet
- October 12 – Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writer
- October 27 – George Barker, poet
- November 29 – Frank Yerby, historical novelist
- date unknown – Dante Milano, poet
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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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