- Apr 5 William Cooper, Australian cricket spin bowler (2 Tests, 9 wickets, BB 6/120; Victoria), dies at 89
- Apr 6 Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer, dies
- Apr 7 Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (1932-39), dies at 59
- Apr 9 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, Spanish composer, dies at 89
- Apr 10 Alfredo Panzini, Italian author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75
- Apr 11 S.S. Van Dine [pseudonym for William Huntingdon Wright], American critic and detective writer (Philo Vance), dies at 50
- Apr 18 Theo Mann, Dutch actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at 88
- Apr 21 Herman Finck, British conductor (Palace Theatre (London), 1900-20), theater and light classical composer (In The Shadows), dies at 66
- Apr 25 John Foulds, British cellist, musicologist, and composer (World Requiem; Three Mantras), dies in Calcutta of cholera at 58
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