Births
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- May 1 – Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay) (died 1924), (UK)
- May 21 – Emile Verhaeren (died 1916), (Belgian / French)
- August 3 – Henry Cuyler Bunner (died 1896), American
- September 12 – William Sharp (d 1905), Scots
- December 15 – Maurice Bouchor (died 1929), French
- December 28 – Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (Uruguay)
- Date not known:
- Devendranath Sen (died 1920), Indian, Bengali-language poet
- Govardhanram N. Tripathi (died 1907), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist and poet
- Alexander Young, Scots
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