Charlton Heston (1923-2008)
Apr 5 American actor (The Ten Commandments; Ben-Hur; Planet of Apes)Ben-Hur), dies at 84
- Apr 8 John Button, Australian politician (Button car plan), dies at 74
- Apr 8 Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
- Apr 8 Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (b. 1928)
- Apr 11 Merlin German, United States Marine
- Apr 12 Cecilia Colledge, British figure skater (World C'ship gold ladies singles 1937; Olympic silver 1936; first female to land a two rotation jump), dies at 87
- Apr 12 Danny Davis [George Nowlan], American session trumpeter, pop-country music bandleader (The Nashville Brass - "I Saw the Light"), singer (Speed Racer theme), and record producer (Connie Francis), dies of a heart attack at 83
- Apr 12 Jerry Zucker, Israeli-born American businessman (b. 1949)
- Apr 12 Patrick 'Paddy' Hillery, 6th President of Ireland, EEC Commissioner and Irish Minister (b. 1923)
- Apr 13 John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist (first American involved in the theoretical development of the atomic bomb), dies at 96
- Apr 14 Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish jazz pianist (Seven Days Of Falling), dies in scuba diving accident at 44
- Apr 14 Miguel Galvan, Mexican actor/comedian. (b. 1957)
- Apr 14 Ollie Johnston, American animator and the last living member of Disney's Nine Old Men, dies at 95
- Apr 14 Tommy Holmes, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1945, 48; NL HR leader 1945; Boston Braves) and manager (Boston Braves), dies at 91
- Apr 14 Werner Groebli, Swiss ice skating clown, (Frick in ice skating act Frick & Frack), dies at 92 [1]
- Apr 15 Benoît Lamy, Belgian film director, dies at 62
- Apr 15 Brian "Blinky" Davison, British rocker (The Nice), dies at 65
- Apr 15 Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop, dies at 86
- Apr 15 Sean Costello, American blues guitarist and singer, dies of multiple drug intoxication at 28
- Apr 16 Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist, dies at 90
- Apr 16 Joseph Solman, American painter
- Apr 17 Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician, dies at 94
- Apr 17 Danny Federici, American rock organist, accordionist, and glockenspieler (E Street Band), dies of melanoma at 58
- Apr 19 Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 72
- Apr 19 Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
- Apr 19 Richard de Bois, Dutch songwriter ("Ik Hou Van Jou"), record producer (Dollly Dots); Ivy Green), and drummer (Roek's Family; Ginger Ale), dies of cancer at 59
- Apr 20 Frank Michael Beyer, German composer, organist, and educator, dies at 80
- Apr 20 Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, literary critic and journalist (b. 1923)
- Apr 20 VL Mike [Michael Allen], American rapper, shot to death by unknown assailant at 32
- Apr 21 Al Wilson, American soul singer ("Show and Tell"; "The Snake"), dies of kidney failure at 68
- Apr 22 Cameron Argetsinger, American auto racing executive (created Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course; F1 US Grand Prix 1961-80), dies from a stroke at 87
- Apr 22 Dora Ratjen, German man who posed as a female high jumper (Olympic 4th 1936), dies at 89
- Apr 22 Ed Chynoweth, Canadian ice hockey executive, dies at 66
- Apr 22 Paul Davis, American country-rock-pop singer-songwriter and piano player ("I Go Crazy"; "65 Love Affair"), dies of a heart attack at 60
- Apr 23 William H. Stewart, 10th US Surgeon General (1965-69), dies at 86
- Apr 25 Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz trumpeter and bandleader ("Bad Penny Blues"), and broadcaster (BBC2 - Best Of Jazz, 1967-2007; BBC4 - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, 1972-2008), dies at 86
- Apr 26 Henry Brant, American composer (Great American Goot), dies at 94
Albert Hofmann (1906-2008)
Apr 29 Swiss chemist who first synthesized and ingested LSD, dies of a heart attack at 102
- Apr 29 Michael "Micky" Waller, British blues and rock drummer (Long John Baldry; Jeff Beck Group), dies of liver failure at 66
- Apr 30 John Cargher, Australian radio broadcaster (b. 1919)
- Apr 30 Juancho Evertsz, Dutch Antillean politician Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (1973-77), dies at 85
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