Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- May 8 – Jones Very (born 1813), American essayist, poet, clergyman, and mystic associated with the American Transcendentalism movement
- July 7 – Lydia Maria Child, 78, American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, Indian rights activist, novelist, journalist and poet
- November 6 – Estanislao del Campo (born 1834), Argentina
- December 22 – George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 61, English novelist and poet
- date not known:
- Eliza Dunlop
- Epes Sargent (born 1813) American editor, poet and playwright
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