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Naipaul, West Indian-born writer and Nobel laureate (d. 2018)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370718676#August", "title": "1932", "revid": 1370718676, "section": "Births › August"}}, {"year": 1933, "year_label": "1933 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 31", "text": "January 31 – John Galsworthy, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371108771#January", "title": "1933", "revid": 1371108771, "section": "Deaths › January"}}, {"year": 1934, "year_label": "1934 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "July 13", "text": "July 13 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372993239#July", "title": "1934", "revid": 1372993239, "section": "Births › July"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 10", "text": "December 10 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373216494#December", "title": "1936", "revid": 1373216494, "section": "Deaths › December"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 18", "text": "January 18 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373216494#January", "title": "1936", "revid": 1373216494, "section": "Deaths › January"}}, {"year": 1939, "year_label": "1939 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372426050#March–April", "title": "1939", "revid": 1372426050, "section": "Births › March–April"}}, {"year": 1939, "year_label": "1939 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 28", "text": "January 28 – W. 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Coetzee, South African writer, Nobel Prize laureate", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#February", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Births › February"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 16", "text": "March 16 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#March", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Deaths › March"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "May 24", "text": "May 24 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#May", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Births › May"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 7", "text": "August 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)", 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"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370167995#June", "title": "1949", "revid": 1370167995, "section": "Deaths › June"}}, {"year": 1949, "year_label": "1949 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 6", "text": "May 6 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1862)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370167995#May", "title": "1949", "revid": 1370167995, "section": "Deaths › May"}}, {"year": 1950, "year_label": "1950 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 2", "text": "November 2 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371638577#November", "title": "1950", "revid": 1371638577, "section": "Deaths › November"}}, {"year": 1951, "year_label": "1951 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – André Gide, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368856437#February", "title": "1951", "revid": 1368856437, "section": "Deaths › February"}}, {"year": 1951, "year_label": "1951 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 10", "text": "January 10 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368856437#January", "title": "1951", "revid": 1368856437, "section": "Deaths › January"}}, {"year": 1952, "year_label": "1952 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373187098#February", "title": "1952", "revid": 1373187098, "section": "Deaths › February"}}, {"year": 1953, "year_label": "1953 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 27", "text": "November 27 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310369#November", "title": "1953", "revid": 1371310369, "section": "Deaths › November"}}, {"year": 1953, "year_label": "1953 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 – Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310369#November", "title": "1953", "revid": 1371310369, "section": "Deaths › November"}}, {"year": 1954, "year_label": "1954 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 – Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born British author, Nobel Prize laureate", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369212684#November", "title": "1954", "revid": 1369212684, "section": "Births › November"}}, {"year": 1955, "year_label": "1955 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 12", "text": "August 12 – Thomas Mann, German novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371173508#August", "title": "1955", "revid": 1371173508, "section": "Deaths › August"}}, {"year": 1957, "year_label": "1957 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 10", "text": "January 10 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371361971#January", "title": "1957", "revid": 1371361971, "section": "Deaths › January"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 4", "text": "January 4 – Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize winner, automobile accident (b. 1913)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#January", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Deaths › January"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 30", "text": "May 30 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1890)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#May", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Deaths › May"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 2", "text": "July 2 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1899)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372676854#July", "title": "1961", "revid": 1372676854, "section": "Deaths › July"}}, {"year": 1962, "year_label": "1962 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373095518#August", "title": "1962", "revid": 1373095518, "section": "Deaths › August"}}, {"year": 1962, "year_label": "1962 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 6", "text": "July 6 – William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373095518#July", "title": "1962", "revid": 1373095518, "section": "Deaths › July"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 4", "text": "January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American-British poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#January", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Deaths › January"}}, {"year": 1968, "year_label": "1968 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 20", "text": "December 20 – John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310387#December", "title": "1968", "revid": 1371310387, "section": "Deaths › December"}}, {"year": 1970, "year_label": "1970 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 17", "text": "February 17 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370420699#February", "title": "1970", "revid": 1370420699, "section": "Deaths › February"}}, {"year": 1970, "year_label": "1970 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 2", "text": "February 2 – Bertrand Russell, British logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1872)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370420699#February", "title": "1970", "revid": 1370420699, "section": "Deaths › February"}}, {"year": 1973, "year_label": "1973 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 – Pearl S. 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