Deaths
- January 28 - Gustave de Molinari, economist (born 1819)
- March 1 - George Grossmith, co-author of Diary of a Nobody (born 1847)
- April 6 - Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet (born 1855)
- April 10 - Gabriel Monod, historian (born 1844)
- April 15 - In the wreck of the RMS Titanic
- Jacques Futrelle, American author (born 1875)
- William Thomas Stead, journalist (born 1849)
- April 20 - Bram Stoker, author (born 1847)
- May 14 - August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist (born 1849)
- July 20 - Andrew Lang, poet, novelist and critic (born 1844)
- July 24 - Addison Peale Russell, American essayist (born 1826)
- August 29 - Theodor Gomperz, Austrian philosopher (born 1832)
- October 21 - [[Robert Barr (writer)|short story writer and novelist (born 1849)
- date unknown - James Allen, author of As a Man Thinketh (born 1864)
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