Deaths
- January 29 - Ernst Moritz Arndt, poet, 90
- February 9 - William Evans Burton, dramatist, theatre manager and publisher, 55
- February 25 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, lexicographer, 69
- May 9 - Samuel Griswold Goodrich, children's author (Peter Parley)
- May 16 - Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron, widow of Lord Byron, 67
- May 23 - Albert Richard Smith, journalist and humorist, 43 (bronchitis)
- August 25
- Christian Lobeck, classical scholar, 79
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg, poet and critic, 68
- September 21 - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher, 72
- December 2 - Ferdinand Christian Baur, theologian, 68
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