- Apr 2 Maud Barger-Wallach, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1908), dies at 83
- Apr 2 Pudge Heffelfinger, American College Football Hall of Fame guard (3 x All American, Yale; first professional player 1892) and coach (Cal, Lehigh, Minnesota), dies at 86
- Apr 10 Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (5-time World Champion all-round), dies at 65
- Apr 12 Pim Mulier, Dutch sports organizer, founded the Dutch Football and Athletics Association, Koninklijke HFC, established hockey in the Netherlands and President of the International Skating Union (1892-94), dies at 89
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