Hugh S. Johnson (1881-1942)
Apr 15 American head of the National Recovery Administration & member of FDR's Brain Trust, dies of pneumonia at 60
- Apr 15 Joshua Pim, Irish tennis player (Wimbledon 1893-94), dies at 72
Robert Musil (1880-1942)
Apr 15 Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61
- Apr 17 Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, (1926 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of sedimentation equilibrium), dies at 71
- Apr 18 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and art patron (founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art NYC), dies at 67
- Apr 24 Leonid Kulik, Russian mineralogist who led the first research expedition to study the Tunguska meteor site, the largest impact event in recorded history, dies of typhus in a Nazi prison camp at 58
- Apr 25 Paul Kornfeld, writer, dies at 52
- Apr 30 Catherine Murphy Urner, American composer, dies at 51
- Apr 30 J. C. Arthur, American botanist (studied parasitic fungi rusts), dies at 92
- Apr 30 Jakob van Hoddis [Hans Davidsohn], German Jewish poet, transported to German concentration camp at 54 [actual date of death unknown]
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