1821
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Art and culture
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
- Epipsychidion by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Fanny Hill (1750) banned in the United States
- Smarra, or The Demons of the Night by Charles Nodier
- Start of the the The monomanies series by Géricault
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Births
- February 17 – Lola Montez, Irish Spanish dancer and royal mistress (d. 1861)
- February 19 – August Schleicher, German linguist (d. 1868)
- March 19 - Richard Francis Burton, British explorer, diplomat and author (d. 1890)
- April 9 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet and writer (d. 1867)
- November 11 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
- November 23 – Charles Méryon, French etcher (d. 1868)
- December 12 – Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
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Deaths
- February 23 – John Keats, British poet (b. 1795)
- May 5 – Napoleon Bonaparte (b. 1769)
- July 4 – Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
- August 24 – John Polidori, physician and writer (b. 1795) (suicide)
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