Archibald McIndoe (1900-1960)
Apr 12 New Zealand plastic surgeon pioneer who rehabilitated badly burned Royal Air Force crew during WWII, dies in his sleep of a heart attack at 59 [or 11 April] [1]
- Apr 13 Beverly Kenney American jazz singer ("I Hate Rock n' Roll"; "Born To Be Blue"), takes her on life at 28
- Apr 16 Felix Kersten, Baltic-German Finnish masseuse physical therapist and personal trainer to Heinrich Himmler who helped save people from Finns from Nazi persecution, dies at 61
- Apr 17 Eddie Cochran, American rock vocalist and guitarist ("Summertime Blues"; "C'Mon Everybody"), dies in a English taxi-car crash at 21
- Apr 18 Emory Johnson, American actor and director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66
- Apr 20 Paul Fort, French poet (founder of Vers et Prose), dies at 88
- Apr 23 Cornelis Jan Bakker, Dutch nuclear physicist (Director of CERN), dies in a plane crash at 56
- Apr 23 Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian social reformer and writer, dies at 71
- Apr 24 Johannes "Jan" Musch, Dutch actor (Dead Water), dies at 84
- Apr 24 Max von Laue, German physicist who discovered the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, dies at 80
- Apr 25 Amanullah Khan, Emir and King of Afghanistan (1919-28), dies at 67
- Apr 25 Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62
- Apr 25 Ilmari Krohn, Finnish composer, dies at 92
- Apr 26 Wander Johannes de Haas, Dutch physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at 82
- Apr 28 Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer, philosopher and Marxist theorist, dies at 87
- Apr 28 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, 19th and 25th President of Chile, dies at 82
Assassination
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Suicide