Deaths
- January 14 – Dorothea Mackellar, poet
- April 16 – Edna Ferber
- April 25 – Donald Davidson
- May 1 – Harold Nicolson, biographer and husband of Vita Sackville-West
- May 30 – Martin Noth, Hebraist
- June 1 – Helen Keller
- October 13 – Sir Stanley Unwin, publisher
- October 30 – Conrad Richter, novelist
- November 17 – Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast author
- November 25 – Upton Sinclair
- December 5 – Anna Kavan
- December 20 – John Steinbeck
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