Deaths
- January 7 - Wilhelm Hertz
- April 6 - Gleb Uspensky, Russian writer
- April 20 - Frank R. Stockton, writer and humorist
- May 6 - Bret Harte, author, poet
- June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet
- June 18 - Samuel Butler, novelist
- September 11 - Ernst Dümmler, historian
- September 29
- Emile Zola, French author
- William Topaz McGonagall, notoriously bad poet
- October 7 - George Rawlinson, historian
- October 13 - John George Bourinot, Canadian historian
- October 25 - Frank Norris, novelist
- November 16 - G. A. Henty, novelist
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“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
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