Deaths
- January 6 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author (born 1815)
- March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author (born 1807)
- April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet (born 1828)
- April 27 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet and essayist (born 1803)
- August 1 - Henry Kendall, poet (born 1839)
- December 6 - Anthony Trollope, novelist (born 1815)
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