* April 23-John Ceiriog Hughes, lyricist and collector of folk tunes ( born 1832 )

* April 23 – John Ceiriog Hughes, Welsh poet ( b. 1832 )

John Ceiriog Hughes ( 25 September 1832 – 23 April 1887 ), was a Welsh poet and well-known collector of Welsh folk tunes.

* In April 2004, Beverly Hughes was forced to resign as minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Counter Terrorism when it was shown that she had been informed of procedural improprieties concerning the granting of visas to certain categories of workers from Eastern Europe.

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

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

Helen Wagner played Hughes family matriarch Nancy Hughes on American soap As the World Turns from its April 2, 1956 debut through her death in May 2010.

In The Guardian on 20 April 1989 Hughes wrote the article " The Place Where Sylvia Plath Should Rest in Peace ":

Robert Menzies defeated Hughes for the UAP leadership and became Prime Minister on 26 April 1939.

* April 5 – Howard Hughes, American aviation pioneer, film director, and eccentric ( b. 1905 )

* April 11 – Charles Evans Hughes, American jurist and statesman ( d. 1948 )

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE ( 19 April 1900 – 28 April 1976 ) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.

Beginning with a set of decisions in March, April, and May, 1937 ( including the Social Security Act cases ), the Court would sustain a series of New Deal legislation .... Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes played a leading role in defeating the court-packing by rushing these pieces of New Deal legislation through and ensuring that the court's majority would uphold it.

On April 19, 1944, the second production Lockheed Constellation, piloted by Howard Hughes and TWA president Jack Frye, flew from Burbank, California, to Washington, D. C. in 6 hours and 57 minutes ( 2300 mi – 330. 9 mph ).

Thomas D ' Arcy Etienne Hughes McGee, PC, ( April 13, 1825 – April 7, 1868 ) was an Irish Nationalist, Catholic spokesman, journalist, and a Father of Canadian Confederation.

In spite of massive efforts to help the survivors with food and medical treatment, led by Brigadier Glyn Hughes, Deputy Director of Medical Services of 2nd Army, about another 9, 000 died in April, and by the end of June 1945 another 4, 000 had died ( after liberation a total of 13, 994 people died ).

* On Friday 20 April 2007, a Private Member's Bill aimed at exempting Members of Parliament from the Freedom of Information Act was ' talked out ' by a collection of MPs, led by Liberal Democrats Simon Hughes and Norman Baker who debated for 5 hours, therefore running out of time for the parliamentary day and ' sending the bill to the bottom of the stack.

* April 19 — Richard Hughes, English novelist ( died 1976 )

* April 28 – Richard Hughes, novelist

The " As the World Turns-The Wedding of Bob and Kim " DVD collection contains 10 episodes which aired April 2 – 15, 1985 that featured the bachelor party, the wedding ceremony, and the reception of Bob Hughes and Kim Sullivan, as played by Don Hastings and Kathryn Hays.

On April 10, Dr. Jim Hughes, the head of infectious disease at the CDC, confirming the warnings of Hong Kong health officials, claimed that he believed that SARS could no longer be eradicated in the Far East.

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 )