- Apr 2 Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85
- Apr 3 Katharine Balfour, American actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69
- Apr 8 Doreen Sloane, English actress (Coronation Street), dies of cancer at 56
- Apr 8 Jose De Vega, American actor dies of AIDS at 56
- Apr 11 Barbara Miller, British stage and screen actress (Blackadder), dies of a brain tumor at 71
- Apr 13 Luis Trenker, South Tyrolean film producer, director and actor (Berge in Flammen), dies at 97
- Apr 13 Ronald Ibbs, Irish actor (No Hiding Place, The Saint), dies at 74
- Apr 15 Henry Kendrick, American actor (Raising Arizona), dies at 56
- Apr 18 Gory Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler, dies at 69
- Apr 18 Robert D. Webb, American director and actor (Love Me Tender; The Jackals), dies at 87
- Apr 20 Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor (Star Wars, Eye of the Needle), dies at 78
- Apr 22 Albert Salmi, American stage and screen character actor (Caddyshack; The Brothers Karamazov; Bus Stop), kills terminally ill wife & self at 62
- Apr 22 Bertil Unger, Swedish actor (Devil & Max Devlin), dies at 69
- Apr 23 Palmer Deane, actor (Still of the Night), dies
- Apr 23 Paulette Goddard, American actress (Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Hazard), dies at 79
- Apr 24 Tom Rolfing, actor (He Knows You're Alone, Cliff-Another World), dies
- Apr 25 Dexter Gordon, American jazz tenor saxophonist Go!; The Other Side of 'Round Midnight), and actor ('Round Midnight), dies of kidney failure at 67
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