Deaths
- March 8 - Jón Thoroddsen elder, Icelandic novelist, 48 or 49
- June 6 - Daniel Pierce Thompson, novelist and lawyer, 72
- June 18 - Charles Harpur, Australian poet, 55 (tuberculosis)
- July 30 - Mihály Tompa, Hungarian lyric poet, 48
- August 24 - Constantin Negruzzi, Romanian poet, novelist, translator, playwright and politician, 60
- August 25 - Jacob van Lennep, Dutch poet and novelist, 66
- September 24 - Henry Hart Milman, historian, 77
- October 18 - Mongkut, King of Siam, subject of the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, 63
- November 30 - August Blanche, Swedish journalist, novelist and statesman, 57 (heart attack)
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