Births
- January 10 - Charles G.D. Roberts, poet (died 1943)
- January 29 - Anton Chekhov, Russian short story writer, novelist and dramatist (died 1904)
- February 11 - Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author (died 1953)
- May 9 - J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist (died 1937)
- June 6 - William Ralph Inge, theologian (died 1954)
- July 3 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, novelist, short story writer and social reformer (died 1935)
- September 13 - Ralph Connor, Canadian novelist (died 1937)
- September 14 - Hamlin Garland, novelist, poet and essayist (died 1940)
- October 23 - Molly Elliot Seawell, novelist and dramatist (died 1916)
writer)|Leonard Huxley]], writer and editor, father of Aldous Huxley (died 1933)
- date unknown - Harriet Theresa Comstock, children's author (died 1925)
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