- Apr 3 Basil Harwood, English composer, dies at 89
- Apr 6 Stanley Christopherson, cricketer (1884, MCC President during WWII), dies
- Apr 6 Seymour Hicks, British actor and theatrical impresario (Scrooge), dies at 78
- Apr 13 C V France, British actor (The Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail), dies at 80
- Apr 14 Joseph A Cushman, US paleontologist, dies at 68
Wallace Beery
Apr 15 Wallace Beery, American circus performer (Ringling Brothers Circus) and actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8), dies from a heart attack at 64
Wallace Beery
- Apr 16 Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54
- Apr 18 Leonard Bloomfield, linguist/philosopher, dies
- Apr 18 Will Hay [William Thomson Hay], British comedian, actor and amateur astronomer, dies from a stroke at 60
- Apr 19 Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
- Apr 19 Stephen Samuel Wise, American Rabbi and President of Zionist Org of America, dies at 75
- Apr 25 Jankel Adler, Polish painter and printmaker, dies at 53
- Apr 28 Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888)