- Apr 1 Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author (Le passé simple), dies at 80
- Apr 1 Hans Filbinger, German politician (CDU), dies at 93
- Apr 1 Herb Carneal, American sports broadcaster (Minnesota Twins 1962-2006; Ford C. Frick Award 1996), dies of congestive heart failure at 83
- Apr 3 Eddie Robinson, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Grambling 408 wins), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 88
- Apr 3 Marion Eames, Welsh novelist, dies at 86
- Apr 3 Nina Wang, Chinese widow of businessman Teddy Wang (Asia's richest woman), dies at 69
- Apr 3 Zoltan Pongracz, Hungarian composer (Mariphonia), dies at 95
- Apr 4 Bob Clark, American film director (b. 1941)
- Apr 4 Terry Hall, English ventriloquist, dies at 80
- Apr 5 Darryl Stingley, American NFL football wide receiver, 1973-77 (New England Patriots), dies from heart disease and pneumonia complicated by quadriplegia at 55
- Apr 5 Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (b. 1908)
- Apr 5 Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (Josephine), dies at 83
- Apr 5 Mark St. John [Norton], American rock guitarist (KISS, April- November, 1984), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 51
- Apr 5 Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer (b. 1938)
- Apr 6 Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (L'imperatore di Capri), dies at 90
- Apr 7 Barry Nelson, American actor (Airport), dies at 89
- Apr 7 Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (B.C., Wizard of Id), dies at 76
- Apr 7 Neville Duke, English WWII flying ace (shot down 27 planes), test pilot (air speed record 1953), dies at 85
- Apr 8 Carey W. Barber, a member of Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1905)
- Apr 8 Sol LeWitt, American artist (b. 1928)
- Apr 9 Egon Bondy, Czech philosopher and writer (b. 1930)
- Apr 10 Dakota Staton, American jazz singer ("Where Flamingos Fly"; "Sex Is A Misdemeanor"), dies at 76
- Apr 11 Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
Apr 11 American author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan), dies from head trauma at 84
- Apr 11 Ronald Speirs, American Army officer (CO of Easy Company), dies at 86
- Apr 11 Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (McCoy, Saunders-Soap), dies at 81
- Apr 12 Kevin Crease, Australian TV anchor (b. 1936)
- Apr 13 Don Selwyn, Māori actorand film director, dies at 71
- Apr 14 Don Ho, Hawaiian-American pop and Hawaiian music singer ("Tiny Bubbles"; "Ain't No Big Thing!"), dies of heart failure at 76
- Apr 14 June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author and social activist, dies at 82
- Apr 15 Brant Parker, American cartoonist (co-creator of "The Wizard of Id"), dies at 86
- Apr 16 Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
- Apr 16 G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (b. 1954)
- Apr 16 Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player (b. 1962)
- Apr 16 Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, American instructor of French (b. 1958)
- Apr 16 Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961)
- Apr 16 Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, dies saving his students during Virginia Tech massacre at 76
- Apr 16 Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games (b. 1915)
- Apr 16 Seung-Hui Cho, Korean American murderer (b. 1984), see List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre
- Apr 17 Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality, dies at 96
- Apr 18 Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki, dies at 61
- Apr 19 Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
- Apr 19 Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (Trout), dies at 74
- Apr 20 Andrew Hill, American jazz pianist, composer and educator, dies at 75
- Apr 20 Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931).
- Apr 21 Lobby Loyde [John Lyde], Australian rock guitarist and songwriter (The Purple Heart; Wild Cherries; Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs), dies at 65
- Apr 21 Parry O'Brien, American athlete (Olympic gold shot put 1952, 1956; silver 1960), dies of a heart attack during a swimming competition at 75
- Apr 22 (Raymond) "Bill" Hoffenberg, South African-British endocrinologist and college president (Wolfson at Oxford, 1985-93), dies at 84
- Apr 22 Juanita Millender-McDonald, American congresswoman from southern California, dies at 68
Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007)
Apr 23 Russian politician and 1st President of Russian Federation (1991-99), dies of congestive heart failure at 76
- Apr 23 David Halberstam, American journalist, historian and author (Pulitzer 1964), dies at 73
- Apr 23 Paul Erdman, Canadian-American economist and author, dies at 74
- Apr 25 Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
- Apr 25 Arthur Milton, English footballer (Arsenal, 1951-55) and cricketer (opening batsman, 2 tests - 1958, 1959), dies at 79
- Apr 25 Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer-songwriter ("Monster Mash"), dies from leukemia at 69
- Apr 25 Les Jackson, English cricket fast bowler (2 Tests, 7 wickets; Derbyshire), dies at 86
- Apr 25 Libera Carlier, Flemish WWII resistance fighter, sailor, and author (Action Station Go!), dies at 81
- Apr 26 Jack Valenti, American political advisor & film executive, dies at 85
- Apr 28 Bertha Wilson, Canadian lawyer and the 1st woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, dies at 83
- Apr 28 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher, dies at 94
- Apr 28 Robert "Dabbs" Greer, American actor (Gunsmoke, The Green Mile, Little House on Prairie), dies of a kidney and heart ailment at 90
- Apr 28 Tommy Newsom, American saxophonist & bandleader (The Tonight Show), dies at 78
- Apr 29 Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor and stand-up comedian (Mot i brøstet, Olsen-banden), dies of heart failure at 85
- Apr 29 Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket all-rounder (32 Tests, 100 wickets, BB 6/63; Canterbury CA), dies at 67
- Apr 29 Ivica Račan, former Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
- Apr 29 Josh Hancock, American baseball player, dies at 29
- Apr 29 Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
- Apr 30 Gordon Scott [Werschkul], American actor (Tarzan series), dies at 80
- Apr 30 Grégory Lemarchal, French pop singer ("De temps en temps"), dies of complications from cystic fibrosis while waiting for a lung transplant at 23
- Apr 30 Jara Ribnikar, Serbian writer, dies at 94
- Apr 30 Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)
- Apr 30 Tom Poston, American actor (Newhart - "George Utley"; Mork & Mindy - "Franklin Bickley"; The Bob Newhart Show; The Steve Allen Show), dies from respiratory failure at 85
- Apr 30 Zoletta "Zola" Taylor, American pop singer (The Platters, 1954-62 - "The Great Pretender"; "Only You"; "Twilight Time"), dies at 69
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