- Apr 19 Jacob Israel Emden [Jacob ben Tswi], German rabbi, dies at 78
- Apr 22 Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theorist & composer, dies at 67
- Apr 24 Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84
- Apr 24 Giuseppe Paolucci, Italian composer, dies at 49
- Apr 29 Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)