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- January 3 – Douglas William Jerrold, English dramatist (died 1857)
- January 15 – Marjorie Fleming, Scottish child writer (died 1811)[6]
- January 27 – Eunice Hale Cobb, American writer, public speaker, and activist (died 1880)
- May 16 – Amelie von Strussenfelt, Swedish novelist (died 1847)
- May 25
- July 20 – Dudley Costello, Irish writer and journalist (died 1865)
- September 20 – Catherine Crowe, English novelist, playwright and children's writer (died 1876)
- September 28 – Prosper Mérimée, French dramatist and historian (died 1870)
- October 25 – Maria Doolaeghe, Flemish novelist (died 1884)[7]
- November 14 – Jacob Abbott, American children's writer (died 1879)
- December 6 – Susanna Moodie, English-born Canadian writer (died 1885)
- December 31 – José María Heredia y Heredia, Cuban poet (died 1839)
Unknown date – Evan Bevan, Welsh writer of satirical verse (died 1866)[8]
- January 1 – James Woodforde, English diarist (born 1740)[9]
- February 11 – Jean-François de La Harpe, French dramatist and critic (born 1739)
- March 14 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (born 1724)
- April 9 – Mihály Bakos (Miháo Bakoš), Slovene hymnist and Lutheran minister (born c. 1742)
- June 12 – Richard François Philippe Brunck, French classical scholar (born 1729)
- August 2 – John Hoole, English translator (born 1727)
- September 5 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French novelist (born 1841)[10]
- October 8 – Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist and poet (born 1749)[11]
- December 18 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, poet and critic (born 1744)
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Van Gemert, Lia (2011). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 500. ISBN 978-9-08964-129-8.