Births
- January 24 - Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and feminist leader (died 1936)
- February 14 - Israel Zangwill, novelist and playwright, (died 1926)
- April 8 - J. Smeaton Chase, English–American author and photographer, (died 1923)
- April 21 - Max Weber, sociologist (died 1920)
- July 20 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1931)
- October 14 - Stefan Żeromski, novelist, poet and dramatist (died 1925)
- November 11
- Alfred Hermann Fried, pacifist writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1921)
- Maurice Leblanc, novelist and crime writer (died 1941)
- December 12 - Paul Elmer More, critic and essayist (died 1937)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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