- Apr 9 Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60
- Apr 13 Károly Thern, Hungarian composer, pianist, and arranger, dies at 68
- Apr 13 John Humphrey Noyes, American preacher and founder of the Oneida Community (Perfectionists), dies at 74
- Apr 27 Henry Hobson Richardson, American Romanesque revival architect (Thomas Crane Public Library), dies of Bright's disease at 47