Births
- January 10 - Stephen Ambrose, controversial historian (died 2002)
- January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, crime novelist
- February 18 - Jean M. Auel, Earth's Children author
- March 7 - Georges Perec, French novelist, filmmaker and essayist (died 1982)
- April 30 - Viktor Likhonosov, Soviet writer and editor
- May 23 - Ian Kennedy Martin, scriptwriter
- May 27 - Ivo Brešan, Croatian playwright, novelist, screenwriter and satirist
- June 3
- Duff Hart-Davis, biographer and journalist, son of Rupert Hart-Davis
- Larry McMurtry, novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
- June 23 - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull author
- June 24 - J. H. Prynne, poet
- July 22 - Tom Robbins, novelist
- August 24 - A. S. Byatt, novelist
- September 20 - Andrew Davies, TV and film writer
- October 2 - Antonio Gala, Spanish poet, playwright and novelist
- October 5 - Václav Havel, dramatist and first president of the Czech Republic (died 2011)
- November 17 - John Wells, satirical writer and actor (died 1998)
- November 20 - Don DeLillo, United States novelist
- December 11 - Ingvar Moe, Norwegian poet, novelist and children's writer (died 1993)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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