Deaths
- January 2 - George Henry Boker, poet and playwright (born 1823)
- September 18 - Dion Boucicault, dramatist (b. c. 1820)
- October 19 - Sir Richard Burton, author (born 1821)
- October 26 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio (born 1826)
- December 29 - Octave Feuillet, novelist and dramatist (born 1821)
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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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—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)