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- Frederick Marryat – The Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay
- January 1 – Tommaso Salvini, Italian memoirist and actor (died 1915)
- January 12 – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, née Mullins, Canadian novelist and poet (died 1879)
- February 24 – Friedrich Spielhagen, German novelist (died 1911)
- March 4 – Samuel Rawson Gardiner, English historian (died 1902)
- April 24 – Luisa Cappiani, Austrian soprano, educator and essayist (died 1919)
- April 26 – Eva Brag, Swedish poet, novelist and journalist (died 1913)
- May 1 – José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (died 1877)
- June 4 – Jane Lippitt Patterson, American writer and editor (died 1919)
- July 19 – Helen Vickroy Austin, American essayist, journalist, and horticulturist (died 1921)
- October 31 – Emma Tatham, English poet (died 1855)
- September 12 – Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist (died 1900)
- September 18 – Edna Dean Proctor, American poet and author (died 1923)
- September 25 – William Michael Rossetti, English critic (died 1919)
- November 21 – Martha Perry Lowe, American writer and activist (died 1902)
- December 8 – Henry Timrod, American poet (died 1867)
- January 6 – Josef Dobrovský, Czech historian (born 1753)
- January 11 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet and critic (born 1772)
- January 15 – John Mastin, English memoirist, local historian and cleric (born 1747)
- January 29 – István Pauli (Pável) Hungarian Slovene priest and writer (born 1760)
- February 11 – Aleksander Griboyedov, Russian dramatist (killed by mob, born 1795)[6]
- July 7 – Jacob Friedrich von Abel, German philosopher (born 1751)
- July 23 – Wojciech Bogusławski, Polish playwright and director (born 1757)
- September 29 – Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont, political writer (born 1759)
- October 10 – Maria Elizabetha Jacson, English writer on botany and gardening (born 1755)[7]
Armstrong, Richard Acland (1881). The Modern Review. J. Clarke & Co. pp. 152–. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 146. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.