Editing 1872 (section)

===April&ndash;June===
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[[File:Paul Laurence Dunbar circa 1890.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Paul Laurence Dunbar]]]]
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Léon Blum]], French politician, [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. [[1950]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Abdullah Yusuf Ali]], Indian-born Islamic scholar, translator (d. [[1953]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Harry Payne Whitney]], American businessman, horse breeder (d. [[1930]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Sidónio Pais]], 4th President, 66th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. [[1918]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Ichiyō Higuchi]], Japanese author (d. [[1896]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[William Bowie (engineer)|William Bowie]], American geodetic engineer (d. [[1940]])
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Anton Korošec]], Slovenian political leader (d. [[1940]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Bertrand Russell]], British philosopher and mathematician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (d. [[1970]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Kim Gap-sun]], bureaucrat and modern Korean businessman, politician, and realtor(d. [[1961]])<ref>[http://koreandb.nate.com/history/people/detail?sn=8994 Kim Gap-sun] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130627194954/http://koreandb.nate.com/history/people/detail?sn=8994 |date=2013-06-27 }} {{in lang|ko}}</ref>
* [[May 31]]
** [[Charles Greeley Abbot]], American astrophysicist (d. [[1973]])
** [[W. Heath Robinson]], British cartoonist, illustrator (d. [[1944]])
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Saburō Hyakutake]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1963]])
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Ladislas Lazaro]], [[U.S. Representatives]] from [[Louisiana]] (d. [[1927]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)]] (d. [[1918]])
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Jan Frans De Boever]], Belgian painter (d. [[1949]])
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Charles Murray (American actor)|Charles Murray]], American actor (d. [[1941]])
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]], American poet, publisher (d. [[1906]])