- Apr 7 Heinz [Burt], British rock bassist (The Tornados - "Telstar"), dies from complications of a stroke at 57 [1]
- Apr 11 Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
- Apr 11 Lucia Dlugoszewski, Polish-American composer (Fire Fragile Flight), dies at 74
- Apr 13 Inglis Gundry, British composer, musicologist and novelist, dies at 94
- Apr 19 Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer, dies at 82
- Apr 21 Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires), dies at 70
- Apr 25 Claire Hogan, American jazz and big band singer (Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, 1948-50), dies at 73 [1]
- Apr 25 Neils Viggo Bentzon, Danish pianist and composer (The Tempered Piano), dies at 80
- Apr 27 Vicki Sue Robinson, American stage and screen actress, and pop singer ("Turn the Beat Around"), dies of cancer at 45
- Apr 30 Bernhard Heiden [Levi], German-American composer (Dreamers on a Slack Wire; Euphorion), and music teacher (University of Indiana, 1945-74), dies at 89
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