Birthdays in Sport
- Apr 5 Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (Olympic gold 1500m, 5000m, allround 1924; 500m, 1500m 1928), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1973)
- Apr 18 Violette Morris, French athlete and spy for Nazi Germany, born in Paris (d. 1944)
- Apr 27 Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, born in Bradford, Ohio (d. 1939)