Deaths
- March 2 - Guillermo Prieto, Mexican novelist, short-story writer, poet and journalist, 79
- March 7 - Harriet Ann Jacobs, African-American writer, 84
- March 11 - Henry Drummond, evangelist and writer on natural history, 45 (cancer)
- April 26 - Manonmaniam Sundaram Pillai, Indian scholar and dramatist, 42
- June 25 - Margaret Oliphant, novelist, 69
- July 6 - Henri Meilhac, French dramatist and opera librettist, 66
- July 28 - Étienne Vacherot, philosophical writer, 87
- August 2 - Adam Asnyk, Polish poet and dramatist, 58
- August 5 - James Hammond Trumbull, philologist, 75
- August 8 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian, 79
- August 25 - Léon Gautier, French historian, 65
- September 17 - Ferenc Pulszky, Hungarian political writer, 82
- October 23 - Jessie Catherine Couvreur, Australian novelist, 48
- October 24 - Francis Turner Palgrave, anthologist, 73
- December 17 - Alphonse Daudet, French novelist, 57 (syphilis)
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