April 18 – Josiah Wood, Canadian lawyer, entrepreneur, mayor, parliamentarian, and the 13th Lieutenant Governor of the province of New Brunswick (d. 1927) April 21 – Walther Flemming, German biologist (d. 1905) April 22 – George I. Alden, American mechanical engineer and academic innovator (d. 1926) April 25 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, third child of Queen Victoria (d. 1878) April 29 – Pedro Américo, Brazilian novelist, poet, scientist, art theorist, essayist, philosopher, politician and professor (d. 1905) April 30 – Edward Colborne Baber, English orientalist (d. 1890) May May 2 – Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer (d. 1922) May 3 – William Lyne Wilson, American politician (d. 1900) May 4 – Eugène Revillout, French Egyptologist (d. 1913) May 5 – William George Beers, Canadian dentist (d. 1900) May 6 – Grove Karl Gilbert, American geologist (d. 1918) May 7 – Léon Melchissédec, French baritone (d. 1925) May 8 – Rudolf Mosse, German publisher (d. 1920) May 9 – Anton von Werner, German painter (d. 1915) May 10 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (d. 1920) May 13 – Paul de Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician (d. 1913) May 15 – Georges Hartmann, French music publisher and dramatist (d. 1900) May 16 – Charles Robert Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, English politician (d. 1928) May 19 – Axel Gudbrand Blytt, Norwegian botanist and geologist (d. 1898) May 20 – Itō Sukeyuki, Japanese admiral (d. 1914) May 21 Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914) Louis Renault, French jurist, educator, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918) May 22 – Adolf Aron Baginsky, German professor of diseases (d. 1918) May 23 – Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, Russian admiral and politician (d. 1917) May 25 – Paul Scheffer-Boichorst, German historian (d. 1902) May 27 – Prince Paul of Thurn and Taxis, son of Maximilian Karl, 6th Prince of Thurn and Taxis (d. 1879) May 28 – Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock, British journalist (d. 1934) May 29 Émile Pessard, French composer (d. 1917) Patrick Craigie, British agricultural statistician (d. 1930) May 30 – Louis Boehmer, German-American agronomist (d. 1896) May 31 – Fredrikke Marie Qvam, Norwegian humanitarian leader, feminist and liberal politician (d. 1938) June June 1 Henry Faulds, Scottish physician, missionary and fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930) Saigō Jūdō, Japanese general, admiral, and politician (d. 1902) June 3 – King Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912) June