Deaths
- January 8 - Paul Verlaine, French poet, 51
- January 17 - Lady Llanover, patron of the arts in Wales, 93
- June 8 - Jules Simon, French philosopher, 81
- July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin author, 85
- July 11 - Ernst Curtius, German historian, 81
- July 16 - Edmond de Goncourt, French critic and founder of the Prix Goncourt, 74
- August 17 - Mary Abigail Dodge, essayist, 63 (cerebral haemorrhage)
- October 3 - William Morris, poet, novelist and designer, 62
- October 8 - George du Maurier, Trilby author, 62
- November 26 - Coventry Patmore, poet, 73
- December 10 - Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 63 (cerebral haemorrhage)
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