Births
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- February 26 – Tekkan Yosano 与謝野 鉄幹 pen-name of Yosano Hiroshi (died 1935), Japanese, late Meiji period, Taishō and early Shōwa period author and poet ; husband of author Yosano Akiko.; grandfather of cabinet minister and politician Kaoru Yosano (surname: Yosano)
- April – Kumaran Asan (died 1924), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- April 25 – Walter De la Mare (died 1956), English poet, short story writer, and novelist
- October 10 – George Cabot Lodge (died 1909) American
- December 7 – Willa Cather, American
- December 11 – Tilly Aston (died 1947), Australian
- December 12 – Lola Ridge (died 1941), American
- Date not known:
- Kumaran Asan (died 1924), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- Gilbert E. Brooke (Singapore)
- George Clarke, Canadian
- Alexander L. Posey
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