Deaths
- February 12 - Karl Eduard von Holtei, poet and dramatist (born 1798)
- February 17 - James Lenox, bibliophile (born 1800)
- April 16 - Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, poet (born 1819)
- May 6 - Ivan Surikov, poet (born 1841)
- May 8 - Gustave Flaubert, novelist (born 1821)
- May 30 - James Planché, dramatist (born 1796)
- June 7 - Karl Christian Planck, philosopher (born 1819)
- July 7 - Lydia Maria Child, writer, activist (born 1802)
- July 12 - Tom Taylor, dramatist and journalist (born 1817)
- September 23 – Geraldine Jewsbury, British author (born 1812)
- November 8 - Arthur Freeman, journalist (suicide) (b. c. 1840)
- December 22 - George Eliot, author (born 1819)
- date unknown
- Louis Edmond Duranty, novelist and critic (born 1833)
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