Editing 1976 (section)

=== April ===
[[File:Max Ernst 1968.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Max Ernst]]]]
[[File:Howard Hughes 1938.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Howard Hughes]]]]
* [[April 1]] 
** [[Max Ernst]], German artist (b. [[1891]])
** [[Alfred Lennon]], father of musician [[John Lennon]] (b. [[1912]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Harry Nyquist]], American [[information theory]] pioneer (b. [[1889]])
* [[April 5]] – [[Howard Hughes]], American aviation pioneer, film director and millionaire recluse (b. [[1905]])
* [[April 9]] 
** [[Margaret Brundage]], American illustrator (''[[Weird Tales]]'') (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brundage_margaret|title=Authors : Brundage, Margaret : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|website=sf-encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=2017-10-21|archive-date=October 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022085100/http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brundage_margaret|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Phil Ochs]], American singer-songwriter (b. [[1940]])
** [[Renato Petronio]], Italian rower, Olympic champion ([[1928 Summer Olympics|1928]]) (b. [[1891]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Miriam Cooper]], American actress (b. [[1891]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Sabri al-Asali]], Syrian politician, 3-time [[Prime Minister of Syria]] (b. [[1903]])
* [[April 14]] – [[Mariano Ospina Pérez]], Colombian politician, 17th [[President of Colombia]] (b. [[1891]])
* [[April 17]] – [[Henrik Dam]], Danish biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[April 25]]
** [[Carol Reed]], English film director (b. [[1906]])
** [[Markus Reiner]], Israeli scientist (b. [[1886]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Andrei Grechko]], Soviet general, [[Soviet Defence Minister|Minister of Defence]] (b. [[1903]])