Famous Birthdays
- Apr 9 Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, Czech composer, born in Mlada Boleslav, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1823)
Famous Deaths
- Apr 2 Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686)
- Apr 9 Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, dies at 75
- Apr 15 Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (Riccati equation), dies at 77
- Apr 28 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes (Fortune Teller), dies at 72
