- Apr 17 François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure, born in Saffais, France (d. 1828)
- Apr 24 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1840)
- Apr 28 Paul Ignaz Kürzinger, Bavarian violinist, kapellmeister, and composer, born in Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1837)