Births
- January 8 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet
- February 1 - Galway Kinnell, American poet
- February 6 - William Gardner Smith, expatriate American novelist & journalist
- February 21 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (died 1996)
- March 6 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist
- May 25 - Robert Ludlum, American novelist (died 2001)
- July 4 - Neil Simon, American playwright
- August 23 - Dick Bruna, Dutch author & illustrator
- September 30 - W. S. Merwin, American poet
- October 16 - Günter Grass, German novelist
- December 13 - James Wright, American poet (died 1980)
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