Births
- January 24 - Edith Wharton (+ 1937)
- May 1 - Marcel Prévost, dramatist (+ 1941)
- May 15 - Arthur Schnitzler, dramatist and novelist (+ 1931)
- June 6 - Sir Henry Newbolt, poet (+ 1938)
- August 1 - Montague Rhodes James, scholar, short story writer (+ 1936)
- August 6 - Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, historian (+ 1932)
- August 29 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright (+ 1949)
- September 27 - Francis Adams, poet, novelist, essayist and dramatist (+ 1893)
- October 13 - Mary Kingsley, travel writer (+ 1900)
- December 8 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (+ 1921)
- December 16 - John Fox, Jr., American novelist and journalist (+ 1919)
- December 23 - Henri Pirenne, historian (+ 1935)
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