- Apr 1 Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French naval doctor and explorer (French Guiana and the Amazon), born in Lorquin, France (d. 1882)
- Apr 7 J. P. [Jens Peter] Jacobsen, Danish writer (Niels Lyhne), born in Thisted, Jutland (d. 1885)
- Apr 9 Francis William Davenport, English composer, born in Wilderslowe, Derby, England (d. 1925)
- Apr 9 Paolo Tosti, Italian composer, born in Ortona, Italy (d. 1916)
- Apr 10 Charles Swinnerton Heap, English composer, born in Birmingham, England (d. 1900)
Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911)
Apr 10 Hungarian-American publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World) and Democratic politician whose bequest founded the Columbia School of Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize, born in Makó, Kingdom of Hungary
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