Deaths
- January 11 - Jean Philibert Damiron, philosopher
- February 24 - Bernhard Severin Ingemann, novelist and poet
- April 6 - Fitz James O'Brien, science fiction pioneer
- May 6 - Henry David Thoreau
- May 25 - Johann Nestroy, dramatist
- November 26 - Julia Pardoe, novelist and historian
- November 30 - James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor
- date unknown - Charlotte Barton, children's author
- date unknown - Thomas Jefferson Hogg, biographer
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