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=== May–June ===
* [[May 2]] – [[Francis P. Duffy]], Canadian-born American Catholic priest (d. [[1932]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Emmett Dalton]], American outlaw, train robber and member of the [[Dalton Gang]] (d. 1937)
* [[May 6]]
** [[Victor Grignard]], French chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] laureate (d. [[1935]])
** [[Christian Morgenstern]], German author (d. [[1914]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Gyula Károlyi]], 29th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[1947]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia]], third son of [[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]], [[Maria Fyodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)|Maria of Russia]] and brother of [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] (d. [[1899]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Walter Stanley Monroe]], businessman, politician, and former [[List of premiers of Newfoundland and Labrador#Dominion Prime Ministers of Newfoundland (1907–1934)|Prime Minister]] of [[Dominion of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]] (d. [[1952]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Walter Russell]], American artist (d. [[1963]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Camille Huysmans]], Belgian politician and former [[prime minister of Belgium]] (d. 1968)
* [[May 27]] – [[Georges Rouault]], French painter, graphic artist (d. [[1958]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Teriimaevarua III]], last [[Queen regnant|Queen]] of [[Bora Bora]] (d. [[1932]])
* [[June 5]] 
** [[Nicolae Iorga]], 34th Prime Minister of Romania (d. [[1940]])<ref>Victor Iova, "Tabel cronologic", in N. Iorga, ''Istoria lui Mihai Viteazul'', Vol. I, Editura Minerva, Bucharest, 1979, pp. xxvii.  {{OCLC|6422662}}</ref>
** [[Michele Angiolillo]], [[Italian anarchist]] (d. [[1897]])
* [[June 7]] – [[Khwaja Salimullah]], fourth [[Nawab of Dhaka]] and one of the leading Muslim politicians during the [[British Raj|British rule in India]] (d. [[1915]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Howard Gould]], American financier and the son of [[Jay Gould]] (d. [[1959]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Walter Cowan]], British admiral (d. [[1956]])
* [[June 12]] 
** [[Ernst Stromer]], German paleontologist (d. [[1952]])
** [[Lu Zhengxiang]], Chinese [[diplomat]] and a [[Roman Catholic]] priest and monk (d. [[1949]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Princess Hélène of Orléans]], member of the deposed [[House of Orléans|Orléans royal family]] of France (d. [[1951]])
* [[June 14]] – [[Jacob Ellehammer]], Danish inventor (d. [[1946]])
* [[June 17]] – [[James Weldon Johnson]], American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter and early civil rights activist (d. [[1938]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Edmund Breese]], American actor (d. [[1936]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Jantina Tammes]], Dutch plant biologist (d. [[1947]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Reginald R. Belknap]], United States Navy rear admiral (d. [[1959]])