Deaths
- January 9 - A. J. Cronin, novelist
- March 7 - Bosley Crowther, film critic
- March 20 - Pedro García Cabrera, poet
- April 26 - Robert Garioch, poet (born 1909)
- May 9 - Nelson Algren, novelist
- May 18 - William Saroyan, novelist and dramatist
- June 15 - Philip Toynbee, novelist and journalist
- September 3 - Alec Waugh, novelist
- September 12 - Eugenio Montale, poet
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