* April 1 – Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur ( d. 1872 )

* April — The Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African American a cappella ensemble, perform before Queen Victoria during their first European tour.

That was repeated in April 1968 when Straw stood for NUS President and was defeated by Trevor Fisk.

* 2009 Oh Happy Day album by various artists, performed on track " I Believe " with the Fisk Jubilee Singers Lang performed the song live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno April 16, 2009.

According to British journalist Robert Fisk, the judge, Ra ’ id Juhi, had indicted Moqtada al-Sadr of murder in April 2004, an important event in the growing Iraqi insurgency.

The character Richard Fisk first appears as The Schemer in The Amazing Spider-Man # 83 ( April 1970 ), and was created by Stan Lee and John Romita, Sr.

James Fisk, Jr. ( April 1, 1835 – January 6, 1872 ) – known variously as " Big Jim ," " Diamond Jim ," and " Jubilee Jim " – was an American stockbroker and corporate executive who has been referred to as one of the " robber barons " of the Gilded Age.

Fisk was born in the hamlet of Pownal, Vermont, in the township of Bennington on April Fool's Day.

** Pliny Fisk Temple ( Francisco P. Temple or F. P. T ) ( February 13, 1822 – April 27, 1880 )

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

In April 1998, American photographer John S Callahan organized the first surfing project in the Andamans, starting from Phuket in Thailand with the assistance of Southeast Asia Liveaboards ( SEAL ), a UK owned dive charter company.

Phillip wrote to Townshend from Rio de Janeiro on 25 April 1783, expressing his disappointment that the ending of the American War had robbed him of the opportunity for naval glory in South America.

* 1987 – April O ' Neil, American porn actress

An American Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

" Migration, Radicalism, and State Security: Legislative Initiatives in the Canada and the United States c. 1794 – 1804 " in Studies in American Political Development, Volume 16, Issue 1, April 2002, 48 – 60

Benjamin Lee Whorf ( April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941 ) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer.

The American colonists arrived aboard the USCGC Itasca, the same vessel that brought colonists to neighboring Howland Island, on April 3, 1935.

Berinthia " Berry " Berenson Perkins ( April 14, 1948 – September 11, 2001 ) was an American photographer, actress, and model.

In April 1861, early in the American Civil War, Corbett enlisted as a private in Company I of the 12 Regiment New York Militia.

Flight 19 alone would be covered in the April 1962 issue of American Legion Magazine.

On April 1970, US President Nixon announced to the American public that US and South Vietnamese ground forces had entered Cambodia in a campaign aimed at destroying NVA base areas in Cambodia ( see Cambodian Incursion ).

The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines ( April 2000 ) indicated that, among psychotherapeutic approaches, cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy had the best-documented efficacy for treatment of major depressive disorder.

September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914 ) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, sometimes known as " the father of pragmatism ".

On 14 April, two brothers blew themselves up in downtown Casablanca, one near the American Consulate, and one a few blocks away near the American Language Center.

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. ( April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948 ) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York.

it was released on the 27th of April in Ireland and the 30th of April in the UK, and features the titular character, Electra Heart, as a fictional character of Marina's creation who epitomizes the American female at her very worst, in the four " Archetypes "; the Primadonna, SuBarbieA, Homewrecker, and the Teen Idle.

Catherine Lucille Moore ( January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987 ) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore.

Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. ( April 29, 1951February 18, 2001 ) was an American race car driver, best known for his involvement in stock car racing for NASCAR.

In Spain and Latin American countries the festival is celebrated with pranks ( inocentadas ), similar to April Fools ' Day.

Doris Day ( born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, April 3, 1924 ) is an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist.

* April 5 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations ( b. 1866 )

* April 17 – John Pierpont Morgan, American financier and banker ( d. 1913 )

Licio Gelli (; born April 21, 1919 ) is an Italian financier, chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal.

John Pierpont Morgan ( April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913 ) was an American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time.

Henry Villard ( April 10, 1835 – November 12, 1900 ) was an American journalist and financier who was an early president of the Northern Pacific Railway.

Samir Saleh Abdullah Al-Suwailem () ( April 14, 1969 – March 20, 2002 ), more commonly known as Emir Khattab ( also transliterated as Amir Khattab and Ameer Khattab ) meaning Commander Khattab, or Leader Khattab, and also known as Habib Abdul Rahman, was a Muslim guerilla fighter and financier working with Chechen Mujahideen in the First Chechen War and the Second Chechen War.

John Charles Herries PC ( November 1778 – 24 April 1855 ), known as J. C. Herries, was a British politician and financier and a frequent member of Tory and Conservative cabinets in the early to mid 19th century.

Junius Spencer Morgan I ( April 14, 1813 – April 8, 1890 ) was an American banker and financier and the father of J. P. Morgan.

* April 24 – Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, American financier who, with his brother Mantis, controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern railroads ( d. 1936 ).

* April 17-J. P. Morgan, American financier who helped to finance United States Steel Corporation ( d. 1913 ).

Marie Françoise Suzanne Dior, also known as Françoise de Caumont La Force, Françoise Dior-Jordan, and Françoise Dior-de Mirleau ( 7 April 1932 – 21 January 1993 ), was a French socialite and post-war Nazi underground financier.

* 9 April — Julius Charles Wernher, financier and mine magnate

Richard Arkwright junior ( 19 December 1755 – 23 April 1843 ), the son of the famous Sir Richard Arkwright of Cromford, Derbyshire, was the financier ( creditor ) of Samuel Oldknow of Marple and Mellor and a personal friend.

Alexander Mitchell ( October 17, 1817 – April 19, 1887 ) was a Scottish-born banker, railroad financier and Democratic politician in Milwaukee.

Frank Jay Gould ( December 4, 1877 – April 1, 1956 ) was a philanthropist and the son of financier Jay Gould.

Clarence Hungerford Mackay ( April 17, 1874 – November 12, 1938 ) was an American financier, believed to inherit most of a $ 500 million estate in 1902.

Henry Gurdon Marquand ( April 11, 1819 – February 26, 1902 ) was an American financier, philanthropist and collector.