- Apr 7 James Lawson Kemper, American lawyer, military officer (US Army Captain - Mexican-American War; Confederate Army Major General), and politician (Governor of Virginia, 1874-78), dies at 71
- Apr 11 Julius Lothar Meyer, German Chemist, dies at 64
- Apr 19 George Scharf, British art critic and administrator (National Portrait Gallery, 1857-95), dies at 74
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