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February 22: Exclusion of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy because of " blasphemous utterances " of the Russian Orthodox Church. It comes to Menschenaufläufen and demonstrations for Tolstoy in Moscow and St. Petersburg
17 June: A unified German spelling is decided by representatives of the federal states of Germany and Austria -Hungary at a conference in Berlin. Konrad Duden 1880 laid the foundation with the work: Full orthographic dictionary of the German language.
October 23: Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate awarded by the Yale University literature
December 10: The first Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to the French poet Sully Prudhomme
The Three Sisters, a drama by Anton Chekhov, premiered on January 31 in Moscow.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton married Frances Blogg
Kim by Rudyard Kipling is published. 2001 The book of the American Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century is counted

January 31: Marie Luise Kaschnitz, German writer († 1974)
MARCH 18: Peter Jilemnicky, Czech writer († 1949)
APRIL 10: Anna Kavan, British writer († 1968)
MAY 11: Rose Auslander, Austrian poet († 1988)
September 29: Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and activist against violence († 1981)
OCTOBER 15: Bernard von Brentano, German writer († 1964)
November 23: Marie Fleißer, German writer († 1974)
December 2: Ida Friederike Gorres, Catholic writer († 1971)
December 16: Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist and author († 1978)
December 9: Odon von Horvath, Austro- Hungarian author and playwright († 1938)

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