Editing 1838 (section)

=== April–June ===
* [[April 2]] – [[Léon Gambetta]], 37th Prime Minister of France (d. [[1882]])
* [[April 3]] – [[John Willis Menard]], African-American politician (d. [[1893]])
* [[April 12]] – [[John Shaw Billings]], American military and medical leader (d. [[1913]])
* [[April 16]]
** [[Ernest Solvay]], Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist (d. [[1922]])
** [[Martha McClellan Brown]], [[American temperance movement]] leader (d. [[1916]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran]], French chemist (d. [[1912]])
* [[April 21]] – [[John Muir]], American ecologist (d. [[1914]])
* [[April 28]] – [[Tobias Asser]], Dutch jurist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1913]])
* [[May 10]] – [[John Wilkes Booth]], American actor, assassin of [[Abraham Lincoln]] (d. [[1865]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Isabelle Bogelot]], French philanthropist (d. [[1923]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Jules Méline]], French statesman (d. [[1925]])
* [[July]] ''full date unknown'' – [[Bass Reeves]], one of the first black [[United States Marshals Service|Deputy U.S. Marshals]] west of the [[Mississippi River]] (d. [[1910]])
* [[June 14]] – [[Yamagata Aritomo]], Japanese field marshal, Prime Minister (d. [[1922]])
* [[June 19]] – [[Mary Cole Walling]], American patriot, lecturer (d. [[1925]])
* [[June 24]] – [[Gustav von Schmoller]], German economist (d. [[1917]])
* [[June 27]] – [[Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]], Indian author (d. [[1894]])