Historical Events
- Apr 5 Under threats from the Ottoman Turkish Government, Bulgaria is forced to arrest the leaders of the Macedonian Committee
- Apr 7 SDAP demands general voting right, abolishing First Chamber
- Apr 15 1st British motorized burial
- Apr 15 5th Boston Marathon won for second straight year by Canadian Jim Caffrey in race record 2:29:23.6
Aguinaldo's Proclamation
Apr 19 In the Philippines, recently captured insurgent leader Emilio Aguinaldo issues a proclamation advising his countrymen to end their rebellion and use of peaceful means to work with the US toward independence.
- Apr 24 First game in baseball's American League: Chicago White Stockings win against the Cleveland Blues 8-2, other games rained out
- Apr 25 Erve Beck hits American League's 1st home run
- Apr 25 In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of greatest comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit)
- Apr 25 New York becomes 1st state requiring automobile license plates ($1 fee)
- Apr 26 Jimmy Collins, having left the Boston Beaneaters (NL), captains and manages his first game for the Boston Americans (loses 10-6 at Baltimore Orioles)
- Apr 28 Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1
- Apr 29 27th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence wins in 2:07.75
- Apr 29 Antisemitic riot in Budapest
Famous Birthdays
- Apr 1 Boris Koutzen, Russian violinist, composer, and educator, born in Uman, Russia (now Ukraine) (d. 1966)
- Apr 1 Johnny Farrell, American golfer (US Open 1928), born in White Plains, NY (d. 1988)
- Apr 1 Whittaker Chambers, American writer, editor, and defector (d. 1961)
- Apr 5 Alexander Alexeieff, Russian-French painter and graphic artist, born in Kazan, Russia (d. 1982)
- Apr 5 Chester Bowles, American ambassador and writer (Conscience of a Liberal), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1986)
- Apr 5 Melvyn Douglas [Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg], American actor (Hud, Being There, Ghost Story), born in Macon, Georgia (d. 1981)
- Apr 6 Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1990, born in Turin, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1925)
- Apr 6 Willem Pelemans, Flemish composer, and music critic, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1991) [some sources give birthdate as April 8]
- Apr 9 Paul Willis, American actor (The Little Lumberjack, Little Kaintuck), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1960)
- Apr 9 Sharon Lynn [D'Auvergne Sharon Lindsay], American silent and sound screen actress (Way Out West; The Big Broadcast), born in Weatherford, Texas (d. 1963)
- Apr 11 Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer and manufacturer (typewriter), born in Ivrea, Italy (d. 1960)
- Apr 11 Glenway Wescott, American writer (Apartment in Athens), born in Kewaskum, Wisconsin (d. 1987)
- Apr 11 Theodor Rogalski, Romanian composer, born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1954)
- Apr 12 Lowell Stockman, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon, born in Helix, Oregon (d. 1962)
- Apr 13 Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist, born in Paris (d. 1981)
- Apr 13 René Pleven, Prime Minister of France (1950-52), born in Rennes, France (d. 1993)
- Apr 14 Martin Kessel, German writer (Mr. Brecher's Fiasco), born in Plauen, Germany (d. 1990)
- Apr 15 Joe Davis, English snooker player (World Champion 1927-40, 1946), born in Whitwell, Derbyshire (d. 1978)
- Apr 16 Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1987)
- Apr 17 George Keyt, Sri Lankan painter, born in Ceylon (d. 1993)
- Apr 18 Al Lewis, American lyricist, songwriter and music publisher ("Blueberry Hill"; "You Gotta Be a Football Hero"), born in New York City (d. 1967)
- Apr 20 Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist, born in Paris (d. 1990)
- Apr 21 Julián Bautista, Spanish orchestral and film score composer, and conductor, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1961)
- Apr 23 E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist, born in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire (d. 1988)
- Apr 24 Charles Phillips, British archaeologist who lead the Sutton Hoo excavation, born in England (d. 1985)
- Apr 25 Ernst Gernot Klussmann, German composer, born in Hamburg, GermanyGerman Empire (d. 1975)
- Apr 28 Corry [Cornelia Diderika] Vonk, Dutch actress (Bleeke Bet), born in Amsterdam (d. 1988)
- Apr 29 G. O. Sayles, English historian, born in Chesterfield, England (d. 1994)
Hirohito (1901-1989)
Apr 29 124th Emperor of Japan (1926-89), born in Aoyama Palace, Tokyo
- Apr 30 Simon Kuznets, American economist (Nobel 1971), born in Pinsk, Russian Empire (d. 1985)
Famous Deaths
- Apr 1 François-Marie Raoult, French physicist and chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70
- Apr 3 Richard D'Oyly Carte, British opera impresario (Gilbert & Sullivan operas), dies at 56
- Apr 4 George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 77
- Apr 11 Ivar Hallström, Swedish composer, dies at 74
- Apr 19 Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
- Apr 22 William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford, dies at 74
- Apr 27 Richard Redhead, English organist, and composer of sacred music, dies at 81
