Historical Events
- Apr 2 Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
- Apr 6 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Speckled Band" (BG)
- Apr 12 French troops under lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal
- Apr 13 US prospector Alfred Packer convicted of manslaughter though accused of cannibalism
- Apr 14 Leo Delibes' opera "Lakmé" premieres in Paris
- Apr 16 Paul Kruger chosen as President of Transvaal
- Apr 23 John Heemskerk Abrahamszoon forms Dutch government
- Apr 24 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair
Famous Birthdays
- Apr 1 Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor
- Apr 1 Leonidas "Lon" Chaney, American actor nicknamed "the man of a 1000 faces" (The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera), born in Colorado Springs, Colorado (d. 1930)
- Apr 6 Mien Labberton, Dutch poetress
- Apr 6 Walter Huston, Canadian actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre), born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (d. 1950)
- Apr 7 Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966)
- Apr 8 R. P. Keigwin, English academic, born in Lexden, Essex (d. 1972)
- Apr 9 Renzo Bossi, Italian composer, born in Como (d. 1965)
- Apr 9 Frank King, American cartoonist (Gasoline Alley), born in Cashton, Wisconsin (d. 1969)
- Apr 11 Leonard Mudie, British actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence), born in Cheetham, England (d. 1965)
- Apr 12 Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (1965 ASMP award), born in Portland, Oregon (d. 1976)
- Apr 12 Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league footballer, born in Balmain, New South Wales (d. 1959)
- Apr 13 Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Russian Soviet composer, born in Plakhino, Ryazan Governorate (d. 1946)
- Apr 13 Demjan Bednyi, Russian writer and satirist, born in Hubivka, Ukraine (d. 1945)
- Apr 15 Stanley Bruce, 8th Prime Minister of Australia, born in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia (d. 1967)
- Apr 17 Herman Darewsky, British composer, born in Minsk, Russian Empire (d. 1947)
Getulio Vargas
Apr 19 Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer and dictator, born in São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazilian Empire (d. 1954)
Getulio Vargas
- Apr 19 Richard von Mises, Austrian scientist and mathematician (probability theory), born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (d. 1953)
- Apr 24 Jaroslav Hašek, Czech writer (Brave soldier Schweik), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary [or April 30]
- Apr 26 Harry Sothern, British actor (Blind Wives, Buck Rogers), born in London, England (d. 1957)
- Apr 27 Hubert Harrison, West Indian-American writer and freedom fighter, born in St. Croix, Danish West Indies (d. 1927)
- Apr 30 David John de Lloyd, composer
Famous Deaths
Edouard Manet
Apr 30 Édouard Manet, French impressionist painter (Olympia, The Luncheon on the Grass) dies at 51
Edouard Manet