Deaths
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- May 31 — Horatius Bonar, Scottish poet
- June 8 — Gerard Manley Hopkins, 54, English poet, of typhoid
- June 15 — Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
- September 23 — Eliza Cook, 70, English poet
- October 25 — Émile Augier, French dramatist and poet
- November 18 — William Allingham, Irish poet
- December 10 — Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian poet and dramatist
- December 12 — Robert Browning, English poet, died on the same day his book, Asolando; Fancies and facts, was published; he was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; his grave now lies immediately adjacent to that of Alfred Tennyson
- November — Martin Farquhar Tupper, 79, English writer and poet
- Date not known:
- Amy Levy, English poet and novelist, by suicide
- Cornelius Mathews
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