Writers

The section of Stephen Hero (James Joyce) added in 1963 will enter the UK public domain.^[2]

• A. Merritt, an American Sunday magazine editor and writer of speculative fiction.
• Akim Samar, a Soviet poet and novelist and the first Nanai-language writer.
• Alberto Casañal Shakery, a Spanish poet, writer, humourist and novelist.
• Alessandro Maragliano, an Italian poet, journalist and painter.
• Alfred Deutsch-German, an Austrian poet, journalist, screenwriter and film director.
• Alice Rühle-Gerstel, a German journalist and activist.
• Andreas Latzko, an Austrian novelist, playwright and biographer.
• Annie Shepherd Swan, a Scottish journalist and writer of romantic fiction.
• Edward Heron-Allen, an English journalist and translator.
• Edward Abbott Parry, an English playwright and children's author.
• Eduardo Martínez Celis, a Mexican journalist, poet, essayist and playwright.
• E. M. Delafield, an English author best known for Diary of a Provincial Lady.
• Denji Kuroshima, a Japanese anti-militarist novelist.
• David Vygodsky, a Russian translator, poet and literary critic.
• Dan Billany, a British novelist of World War II. Note that The Cage and The Trap were published posthumously, and therefore will not enter the public domain in 2014.
• Cale Young Rice, an American poet and dramatist.
• Bernt Theodor Anker, a Norwegian author.
• Beatrix Potter, an author and illustrator best known for The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
• Beatrice Webb, an English socialist author.
• Beatrice Hastings, an English writer, poet and literary critic.
• Arthur Waugh, an English biographer, poet and father of Alec and Evelyn Waugh.
• Gertrud Kolmar, a German poet.
• George Bramwell Evens, a British writer on natural history and the countryside.
• Froylán Turcios, a Honduran intellectual.
• Frida Uhl, an Austrian writer.
• Fredrik Ramm, a Norwegian journalist.
• Frederick Franklin Schrader, an American journalist and dramatist.
• Ernst Ottwalt, a German writer and dramatist.
• Enrique Geenzier, a Panamanian poet.
• Emily Poynton Weaver, a Canadian novelist and essayist.
• Else Ury, a German, Jewish children's book author.
• Elinor Glyn, a British script writer and author of romantic fiction.
• Georg Hermann, a German, Jewish writer, art historian.
• Hanns Heinz Ewers, a German writer, Enfant terrible and Nobel prize winner.
• Karl Federn, a German writer, his Book "Hauptmann Latour" was forbidden by the Nazi Regime.
• Kurt Eggers, a German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright.
• Kočo Racin, a Macedonian poet.
• Kermit Roosevelt, an American memoirist and the son of Theodore Roosevelt.
• Karl Schönherr, an Austrian writer on Heimat.
• Jenő Rejtő, a Hungarian journalist and writer.
• Jovan Dučić, a Bosnian Serb writer and poet.
• José Gil Fortoul, a Venezuelan historian and writer.
• Joseph Clayton, an English journalist, historian and biographer.
• Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, a German philosopher and painter.
• Jiří Langer, a Hebrew poet, scholar and essayist.
• James Cowan, a New Zealand author on ethnography and colonial history.
• Ivan Goran Kovačić, a Croatian poet and writer.
• Ignacio Lasso, an Ecuadorian poet.
• Hyun Jin-geon, a South Korean writer.
• Hermogenes Ilagan, a Filipino writer and playwright.
• Henrik Pontoppidan, a Danish realist writer and Nobel Laureate.
• Gjuro Szabo, a Croatian historian.
• Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, a French avant-garde poet.
• Robert Lively, an American screenwriter.
• Richard Hillary, a British pilot who wrote about The Battle of Britain.
• Raisa Blokh, a Russian poet.
• Radclyffe Hall, an English poet and author best known for The Well of Loneliness.
• Poykayil Johannan, a Dalit poet.
• Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, a French journalist and writer.
• Per Imerslund, a Norwegian national socialist and autobiographer.
• Nordahl Grieg, a Norwegian socialist poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist.
• Nankichi Niimi, a Japanese author of children's fiction.
• Maurice Healy, an Irish writer best known for his legal memoirs.
• Maria Jotuni, a Finnish author and playwright.
• Mankumari Basu, an Indian poet and short story writer.
• M. M. Mangasarian, an American writer best known for discussion of the historical Jesus.
• Louis Gillet, a French art and literature historian.
• Lorenz Hart, a lyricist who wrote songs like "Blue Moon" and "My Funny Valentine"
• Lore Berger, a Swiss novelist.
• Levon Pashalian, an Armenian short story writer, journalist and novelist.
• Zygmunt Rumel, a Polish poet.
• Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, an Azerbaijani essayist and novelist.
• Yury Tynyanov, a Soviet writer and screenwriter.
• William Charles Scully, a South African poet and novelist.
• Willem Arondeus, a Dutch artist and novelist.
• Wallace Nelson, an Australian essayist.
• W. W. Jacobs, an English novelist and short story writer best known for The Monkey's Paw
• Veselin Masleša, a Bosnian Serb writer.
• Vaman Malhar Joshi, an Indian writer.
• Tsugi Takano, a Japanese novelist.
• Tripuraneni Ramaswamy, an Indian playwright.
• Thoma Abrami, an Albanian poet and journalist.
• Theo Thijssen, a Dutch writer.
• Stephen Vincent Benét, an American poet, novelist and short story writer best known for John Brown's Body
• Stephen Haggard, a British writer and poet.
• Simone Weil, a French philosopher who wrote a plan for post-World War II France.
• Shūsei Tokuda, a Japanese author.
• Shaul Tchernichovsky, a Russian-born Hebrew poet.
• Sarah Grand, a British feminist writer.
• S. E. Cottam, an English poet.
• Rudolf Lothar, an Austrian writer and essayist.
• Kostis Palamas, a Greek poet.
• Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Dutch poet, mystic and classicist.

Artists

• Beatrix Potter - illustrated her classic children's books
• William M. Timlin, a South African illustrator.
• Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor.
• Henri Martin, French painter.
• Camille Claudel, French sculptor.
• Maurice Denis, French painter.
• Chaïm Soutine, French expressionist painter.
• Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist and sculptor.
• Robert Antoine Pinchon, French Post-Impressionist landscape painter.
• Jovan Dučić, Bosnian Serb poet and writer.
• Oskar Schlemmer, German poet and sculptor.
• Carmen Zaragoza y Rojas, Filipino painter
• Anna Alma-Tadema
• Franz Courtens
• Aristarkh Lentulov
• John R. Neill, American magazine and children's book illustrator
• Nils von Dardel
• Sarah Purser Irish
• Alain John
• Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer
• Edmond Delphaut
• Ella Du Cane
• Emil Mazy
• Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer
• Emanuel Bachrach-Barée

Composers and musicians

• Fats Waller, American jazz musician and entertainer.
• Geoffrey Shaw, English composer and musician.

According to the Logos Foundation, works by these composers published during their lifetimes are in the public domain.^[3]

• Joseph Schillinger
• Sergei Rachmaninov
• Wouter Hutschenruijter (1859-1943)
• Leo Smit
• Charles N. Daniels
• Lorenzo Barcelata

Academics

• Max Wertheimer
• Franz Oppenheimer, German-Jewish sociologist and political economist.

Other

• Nikola Tesla
• George Washington Carver, American scientist and inventor.
• Max Reinhardt, American actor and director.
• John Harvey Kellogg
• Johannes Hähle, German World War II photographer.