- Apr 3 Ray Noble, English bandleader, comedian and actor (The Very Thought of You), dies at 74
- Apr 4 Gino Contilli, Italian composer, dies at 70
- Apr 5 Carlo Tagliabue, Italian operatic baritone, (La Scala, 1930-55), dies at 80
- Apr 6 Nicolas Nabokov, Russian composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74
- Apr 7 Ernest Kanitz, Austrian-American composer, dies at 83
- Apr 21 Sandy Denny, English singer-songwriter (Fairport Convention - "If You Gotta Go"), dies of traumatic mid-brain hemorrhage and blunt force trauma to her head after a series of falls at 31
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