Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Apr 3 American author (Legend of Sleepy Hollow), born in NYC, New York
- Apr 8 John Claudius Loudon, Scottish horticulturist, born in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1843)
- Apr 10 Hortense de Beauharnais, French Queen of Holland (1806-10), born in Paris (d. 1837)
- Apr 29 David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1856)