- Apr 1 Art Lund, Salt Lake City Utah, singer (Ken Murray Show)
Billie Holiday
Apr 7 Billie Holiday [Eleanora Fagan], American jazz singer (Lady Sings the Blues), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1959)
Billie Holiday
- Apr 12 Ernest Borneman, German sexual researcher, psychotherapist, musician and writer (Bang, You're Dead), born in Berlin (d. 1995)
- Apr 12 Hound Dog Taylor [Theodore Roosevelt], American Chicago blues guitarist and singer, born in Natchez, Mississippi (d. 1975)
- Apr 19 Dorian Le Gallienne, Australian composer, born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1963)
- Apr 21 Andor Kovach, Romanian composer (Médée), born in Transylvania, Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 2005)
- Apr 26 Johnny Shines, American delta blues singer and guitarist, born in Memphis, Tenneessee (d. 1992)
- Apr 29 Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers), born in Piqua, Ohio (d. 1999)
About April 1915
How Old? 105 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation
Leap Year: No