- Apr 9 Félix Máximo López, Spanish composer, dies at 78
- Apr 20 Franz Karl Achard, German physicist and chemist, dies at 67
- Apr 21 Thursday October Christian, son of Fletcher Christian (leader of the historical mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 40
- Apr 22 John Crome [Old Crome], English landscape painter and etcher, dies at 52
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