Deaths
- January 16 - Anton Felix Schindler, biographer of Beethoven (born 1795)
- January 29 - Lucy Aikin, historian (born 1781)
- February 2 - Adelaide Anne Procter, poet (born 1825)
- March 16 - Robert Smith Surtees, novelist and sports writer (born 1805)
- May 19 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist (born 1804)
- May 20 - John Clare, poet (born 1793)
- May 26 - Charles Sealsfield, novelist (born 1793)
- July 4 - Thomas Colley Grattan, novelist (born 1792)
- August 7 - Janez Puhar, poet (born 1814)
- September (date unknown) - Antônio Gonçalves Dias, poet (born 1823) (lost at sea)
- September 17 - Walter Savage Landor, poet (born 1775)
- December 6 - Simonas Daukantas, Lithuanian ethnographer and historian (born 1793)
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