Deaths
- January 2 - Frank Muir, comedy writer, 77
- January 11 - John Wells, satirical writer, 61
- January 23 - John Forbes, Australian poet
- January 27 - Geoffrey Trease, historical novelist
- February 7 - Lawrence Sanders, author
- February 17 - Ernst Jünger, novelist and war memoirist
- March 15 - Dr Benjamin Spock, childcare expert
- April 11- Francis Durbridge, playwright, 85
- April 19 - Octavio Paz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature, 84
- April 27 - Pauline Réage, journalist and novelist, 90
- April 27 - Carlos Castaneda, anthropologist and spiritual author, 72
- May 9 - Nat Perrin, comedy writer, 93
- June 10 - Hammond Innes, novelist, 84
- June 11 - Dame Catherine Cookson, bestselling novelist, 91
- July 1 - Martin Seymour-Smith, biographer, 70
- July 5 - Johnny Speight, comedy writer, 78
- July 9 - Ian Wallace, science fiction author
- July 14 - Miroslav Holub, Czech poet, 74
- July 23 - John Hopkins, film and television writer
- September 28 - Eric Malling, journalist
- October 22 - Eric Ambler, spy novelist, 89
- October 28 - Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of Great Britain, 68
- November 3 - Bob Kane, comics artist and writer, creator of Batman, 83
- November 8 - Rumer Godden, novelist, 90
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