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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