Editing 1954 (section)

===April===
[[File:Léon Jouhaux nobel.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Léon Jouhaux]]]]
* [[April 2]] 
** [[Hoyt Vandenberg]], [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force general]] (b. [[1899]])
** [[Maud Barger-Wallach]], American tennis player (b. [[1870]])
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Aristides de Sousa Mendes]], Portuguese diplomat and humanitarian (b. [[1885]])<ref>[https://www.centerofportugal.com/tour/aristides-de-sousa-mendes-the-insubordinate-consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes: the insubordinate consul]</ref>
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Saburō Kurusu]], Japanese diplomat (b. [[1886]])
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Auguste and Louis Lumière|Auguste Lumière]], French film pioneer (b. [[1862]])
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu]], Romanian communist activist and sociologist (b. [[1900]])
* [[April 27]] 
** [[Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski]], Polish scientist and explorer who participated in the [[Belgian Antarctic Expedition|Belgian Antarctic expedition]] (b. [[1872]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Polish Polar Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_W0fAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe|page=10}}</ref>
** [[Thorvald Ellegaard]], Danish track cyclist (b. [[1877]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 27, 2017 |title=Today in Transportation History – 1954: The Passing of a Danish Cycling Legend |url=https://transportationhistory.org/2017/04/27/today-in-transportation-history-1954-the-passing-of-a-danish-cycling-legend/ |access-date=December 28, 2023 |website=Transportation History}}</ref>
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Léon Jouhaux]], French labor leader, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Joe May]], Austrian-born film director (b. [[1880]])