* April 19-John Addington Symonds, poet and essayist ( born 1840 )

* April 19-John Maynard Smith ( b. 1920 ), evolutionary biologist and geneticist.

* April 24 – Lucy Beaumont, English actress ( b. 1873 )

* April 19 – Sir John Beaumont, English poet ( b. 1583 )

* April 5 – Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester ( b. 1104 )

A 1997 revival, again at the Vivian Beaumont, ran for 27 previews and 57 performances between April 3 and June 15.

Perkins returned to live performances on April 21, 1956, beginning with an appearance in Beaumont, Texas, with the " Big D Jamboree " tour.

In April 1204 Walter returned to France with John de Gray the Bishop of Norwich, Eustace the Bishop of Ely, William Marshal, and Robert de Beaumont the Earl of Leicester to seek peace with Philip Augustus.

Miller Farr Jr. ( born April 8, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas ) was an American football cornerback who played for ten seasons in the AFL and NFL.

# Henry Beaumont, 3rd Baron Beaumont, ( 4 April 1340 – 17 June 1369 ).

John de Beaumont died in a tournament on 14 April 1342.

Timothy Wentworth Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley ( 22 November 1928 – 8 April 2008 ) was a United Kingdom politician and an Anglican clergyman.

Sir John Beaumont, 1st Baronet ( 1583 – 19 April 1627 or c. 1582 – c. April 1627 ) was an English poet.

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester ( 1104 – 5 April 1168 ) was Justiciar of England 1155 – 1168.

William Beaumont ( November 21, 1785 – April 25, 1853 ) was a surgeon in the U. S. Army who became known as the " Father of Gastric Physiology " following his research on human digestion.

According to the federal Bureau of Prisons website, the 59-year-old Scrushy was moved in April 2012 from the federal prison in Beaumont, Texas into the supervision of the community corrections management field office in San Antonio, Texas.

After 36 previews, the Broadway production opened on April 18, 2005 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center, where it ran for 504 performances and closed on July 2, 2006.

Sir William de Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Beaumont ( April 1438 – 19 December 1507 ) was the son of Sir John de Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Phelip.

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* Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale 28 April 1949 – 16 December 1956

Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

Charlotte Brontë (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855 ) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards.

Joseph Labadie ( April 18, 1850 – October 7, 1933 ) was an American labor organizer, individualist anarchist, social activist, printer, publisher, essayist, and poet.

The poem remained buried in obscurity until a 10 April 1816 meeting between Coleridge and George Gordon Byron, a younger poet, who persuaded Coleridge to publish Christabel and Kubla Khan as fragments.

Luigi Alamanni ( sometimes spelt Alemanni ) ( 6 March 1495 – 18 April 1556 ) was an Italian poet and statesman.

Leon Battista Alberti ( February 18, 1404 – April 20, 1472 ) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath.

On April 8, 1341, he became the first poet laureate since antiquity and was crowned on the holy grounds of Rome's Capitol.

* Petrarch-the poet who lost his head April 2004 article in The Guardian regarding the exhumation of Petrarch's remains

The Writer ’ s Union also formed a committee in April 1968, headed by the poet Jaroslav Seifert, to investigate the persecution of writers after the Communist takeover in February 1948 and rehabilitate the literary figures into the Union, bookstores and libraries, and the literary world .< ref > Golan, Galia.

Cros was a poet of meager means, not in a position to pay a machinist to build a working model, and largely content to bequeath his ideas to the public domain free of charge and let others reduce them to practice, but after the earliest reports of Edison's presumably independent invention crossed the Atlantic he had his sealed letter of April 30 opened and read at the December 3, 1877 meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, claiming due scientific credit for priority of conception.

Ralph Waldo Emerson ( May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882 ) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

Robert Penn Warren ( April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989 ) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.

Terence Alan Patrick Seán " Spike " Milligan KBE ( 16 April 191827 February 2002 ) was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor of English and Irish parentage.

William Wordsworth ( 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 ) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

* April 26 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet ( b. 1882 )

* April 16 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

* April 19 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet ( b. 1536 )

* April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg, British war poet ( b. 1890 )

* April 3 – Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and dramatist ( b. 1890 )

* April 23 – Roy Campbell, Anglo-African poet ( b. 1901 )

* April 10 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter ( b. 1883 )

* April 2 – Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet ( d. 1862 )

* April 22 – Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate

* April 26 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet ( d. 1862 )