Deaths
- January 7 - Wilhelm Hertz
- April 6 - Gleb Uspensky, Russian writer
- April 20 - Frank R. Stockton, writer and humorist
- May 6 - Bret Harte, author, poet
- June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet
- June 18 - Samuel Butler, novelist
- September 11 - Ernst Dümmler, historian
- September 29
- Emile Zola, French author
- William Topaz McGonagall, notoriously bad poet
- October 7 - George Rawlinson, historian
- October 13 - John George Bourinot, Canadian historian
- October 25 - Frank Norris, novelist
- November 16 - G. A. Henty, novelist
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“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
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