- Apr 1 Eugene "Gene" Evans, American actor (My Friend Flicka, Johnny Ringo, Alamo), dies of heart failure at 75
- Apr 1 Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death), dies at 34
- Apr 3 Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (b. 1900)
- Apr 3 Rob Pilatus, American-German model, dancer, and de-frocked Grammy Award winner (Milli Vanilli - "Girl You Know It's True"), dies of accidental prescription drug and alcohol overdose at 42
- Apr 5 Charles Frank, British theoretical physicist (work on crystal dislocations), dies at 87
- Apr 5 Cozy Powell [Colin Flooks] English rock drummer (Jeff Beck Group; Emerson, Lake & Powell), dies in a car crash at 50
- Apr 5 John Wilbraham, British classical, baroque, and session trumpeter (Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields; English Chamber Orchestra; The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour), and educator, dies at 53
Tammy Wynette (1942-1998)
Apr 6 American country singer ("Stand By Your Man"), dies at 55
- Apr 6 Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
- Apr 7 Broery Marantika [Simon Pesulima], Indonesian blues and jazz singer, and actor, dies at 51
- Apr 7 Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician, dies at 55
- Apr 9 John Tate, American boxer (WBA heavyweight championship 1979-80), dies from a stroke at 43
- Apr 9 Tom Cora, American cellist and composer, dies at 44
- Apr 11 Ivan Tcherepnin, American experimental and postmodern composer, dies at 55
- Apr 11 Rodney Harvey, American actor and model (Salsa), dies of a drug overdose at 30
- Apr 13 Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver & skysurfer, dies at 38
- Apr 14 Maurice Stans, American politician, Secretary of Commerce and Watergate figure, dies at 90
Pol Pot (1925-1998)
Apr 15 Cambodian dictator (1976-79), revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge (1963-97) and perpetrator of the Cambodian genocide, dies at 72
Linda McCartney (1941-1998)
Apr 17 American photographer, musician (Wings) and wife of Paul McCartney, dies of breast cancer at 56
- Apr 18 Terry Sanford, American politician, dies at 80
- Apr 19 Liam Sullivan, American singer and actor (Star Trek; The Magic Sword; Monroes), dies of a heart attack at 74
- Apr 19 Octavio Paz, Mexican poet (Salamandra; Topoemas), writer and diplomat who won the 1990 Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 84
- Apr 20 Trevor Huddleston, English Anglican bishop in South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (wrote Naught for Your Comfort), dies at 84
- Apr 21 Jean Francois Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1924)
- Apr 21 Peter Lind Hayes, American comedian and singer (Peter Lind Hayes Show), dies at 82
- Apr 22 Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach, dies at 58
James Earl Ray (1928-1998)
Apr 23 American assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., dies while still under detention of complications related to kidney disease and liver failure caused by hepatitis C at 70
- Apr 23 Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician, President of Greece (1980-85), dies at 91
- Apr 24 Mel Powell [Epstein], American composer (Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra - Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1990), dies from liver cancer at 75
- Apr 25 Wright Morris, American writer (b. 1910)
- Apr 27 Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born American writer and mystic, dies at 72
- Apr 27 Dominique Aury, French novelist, dies at 90
- Apr 27 Godfrey Kenton, English actor (The Tempest, Well's Theater), dies at 96
- Apr 27 John Bassett, Canadian publisher & media baron, dies at 47
- Apr 28 Ramakant Desai, Indian cricket fast bowler (28 Tests, 74 wickets, 1 x 50; Bombay), dies from cardiac arrest at 58
- Apr 29 Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey coach (inaugural HC Vancouver Canucks 1969-72), dies at 75
- Apr 30 Francis Avery Jones, Welsh gastroenterologist, dies at 87
- Apr 30 Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (b. 1926)
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