Births
- February 8 - Jules Verne, French novelist and science fiction pioneer (died 1905)
- February 12 - George Meredith, novelist and poet (died 1909)
- February 14 - Edmond About, French novelist and journalist (died 1885)
- March 20 - Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist (died 1906)
- April 4 - Margaret Oliphant, novelist and historical writer (died 1897)
- May 12 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and artist (died 1882)
- September 9 - Leo Tolstoy, novelist (died 1910)
- September 17 - Louise Flodin, journalist (died 1923)
- October 8 - Francisque Sarcey, journalist and critic (died 1899)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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