Editing 1856 (section)

=== April–June ===
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Washington Irving Chambers]], American naval officer (d. [[1934]])
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Booker T. Washington]], American educator (d. [[1915]])
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Maurice Sarrail]], French general (d. [[1929]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington|Martin Conway]], British art critic, mountaineer (d. [[1937]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Albert W. Grant]], American admiral (d. [[1930]])
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Hammerton Killick]], Haitian admiral (d. [[1902]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Granville Woods]], African-American inventor (d. [[1910]])
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Philippe Pétain]], French soldier, statesman (d. [[1951]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; Sir [[Joseph Ward]], 17th [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (d. [[1930]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Tongzhi Emperor]] of China (d. [[1875]])
* [[May 6]]
** [[Sigmund Freud]], Austrian neurologist (d. [[1939]])
** [[Robert Peary]], American Arctic explorer (d. [[1920]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Pedro Lascuráin]], 34th [[President of Mexico]] (d. [[1952]])
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[L. Frank Baum]], American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker (''The Wizard of Oz'') (d. [[1919]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi]], Italian nobleman, general and politician (d. [[1941]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[José Batlle y Ordóñez]], Twice President of Uruguay (d. [[1929]])
* [[May 25]]
** [[Ján Bahýľ]], Slovak engineer, inventor (d. [[1916]]) 
** [[Louis Franchet d'Espèrey]], French general (d. [[1942]])
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[Andrey Markov]], Russian mathematician (d. [[1922]])
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[H. Rider Haggard]], English novelist (d. [[1925]])
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Maria Cederschiöld]], Swedish journalist   (d. [[1935]])