André Michelin
Apr 4 Andre Michelin, French industrialist, tire manufacturer and publisher of the Michelin Guide, dies of respiratory failure at 78
- Apr 4 George Whitefield Chadwick, composer, dies at 76
- Apr 6 Giuseppe Radiciotti, Italian musicologist and composer, dies at 73
- Apr 8 Eric Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet (Nobel Prize for Literature 1931), dies at 66
- Apr 9 Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 67
- Apr 10 Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
- Apr 16 Rachel Bluwstein, Hebrew poet, dies of tuberculosis at 40
- Apr 25 Bert Hopkins, Australian cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 509 runs), dies at 56
- Apr 30 Sammy Woods, Australian cricket all-rounder (3 Tests Australia, 3 England, 1 x 50, 10 wickets; Somerset CCC) and rugby union flanker (13 caps England, 5 as captain), dies at 64