- Apr 2 Giacomo Tritto, Italian composer, born in Altamura, Italy (d. 1824)
- Apr 15 Johann Heinrich Zang, German composer and organist, born in Zella St Blasii, Germany (d. 1811)
- Apr 27 Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter, German Botanist who pioneered the study of plant hybrids, especially among the tobacco plants, born in Sulz am Neckar, Germany (d. 1806)