- Apr 2 Zsolt Durko, Hungarian composer, dies at 62
- Apr 7 Egil Harder, Danish concert pianist and composer (The Blue Anemone), dies on his 80th birthday
- Apr 8 Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter ("Wedding Bell Blues"; "Stoned Soul Picnic"; "And When I Die"), dies of ovarian cancer at 49
- Apr 9 Mae Boren Axton, American songwriter, known as the"Queen Mother of Nashville" ("Heartbreak Hotel"), drowns in her hot tub during a heart attack at 82
- Apr 10 Toshiro Mayuzumi, Japanese composer (Sphenogramme), dies at 68
- Apr 13 Gail Reese [Virginia Vieser], American big band and radio singer (Bunny Berigan, Glenn Miller), dies at 79
- Apr 16 Ray Green, American composer and publisher, dies at 88
- Apr 17 (Averil) Mary Thomas, Welsh lyric soprano of both early and contemporary concert music, dies at 64
- Apr 18 David Branson, British piano prodigy, composer, musicologist, and visual artist, dies at 88
- Apr 19 El Duce [Eldon Wayne Hoke], American singer and drummer (The Mentors), dies from a "misadventure" on a train-track at 39
- Apr 24 Robert Erickson, American composer, dies at 80
- Apr 26 Gene Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers), dies of cancer at 73
- Apr 29 Keith Ferguson, American blues-rock bassist (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of liver failure due to heroin use at 50
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