Births
- January 14 - Sir Trevor Nunn, theatre director
- February 4 - George A. Romero, horror film writer, producer, director
- March 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian writer and film director
- March 28 - Russell Banks, novelist
- April 15 - Jeffrey Archer, novelist
- May 7 - Angela Carter, English magical realist author (died 1992)
- May 8 - Peter Benchley, novelist (died 2006)
- May 13 - Bruce Chatwin, novelist and travel writer (died 1989)
- May 24 - Joseph Brodsky, poet (died 1996)
- May 28 - Maeve Binchy, novelist (died 2012)
- July 17 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, comedy writer and actor
- October 20 - Robert Pinsky, poet
- December 5 - Peter Pohl, novelist
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