| 39331 | April 5 | Death | 1834 – Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral and politician, 40th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1757) |
| 39332 | April 5 | Death | 1864 – Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (b. 1797) |
| 39333 | April 5 | Death | 1900 – Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (b. 1822) |
| 39334 | April 5 | Death | 1923 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and businessman (b. 1866) |
| 39335 | April 5 | Death | 1928 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1890) |
| 39336 | April 5 | Death | 1932 – Phar Lap, New Zealand race horse (b. 1926) |
| 39337 | April 5 | Death | 1936 – Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect (b. 1884) |
| 39338 | April 5 | Death | 1940 – Charles Freer Andrews, English-Indian priest, missionary, and educator (b. 1871) |
| 39339 | April 5 | Death | 1941 – Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (b. 1876) |
| 39340 | April 5 | Death | 1943 – Aleš Hrdlička, Czech-American anthropologist and scholar (b. 1869) |
| 39341 | April 5 | Death | 1945 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer (b. 1897) |
| 39342 | April 5 | Death | 1946 – Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (b. 1898) |
| 39343 | April 5 | Death | 1952 – Charles Collett, English engineer (b. 1871) |
| 39344 | April 5 | Death | 1964 – Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880) |
| 39345 | April 5 | Death | 1966 – John Henry Starling, Australian public servant (b. 1883) |
| 39346 | April 5 | Death | 1967 – Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (b. 1891) |
| 39347 | April 5 | Death | 1967 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890) |
| 39348 | April 5 | Death | 1969 – Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian SS officer (b. 1903) |
| 39349 | April 5 | Death | 1969 – Shelby Storck, American journalist, actor, director, and producer (b. 1917) |
| 39350 | April 5 | Death | 1970 – Alfred Sturtevant, American geneticist and academic (b. 1891) |
| 39351 | April 5 | Death | 1972 – Brian Donlevy, American actor and producer (b. 1901) |
| 39352 | April 5 | Death | 1972 – Isabel Jewell, American actress and singer (b. 1907) |
| 39353 | April 5 | Death | 1972 – Robert Speck, Canadian politician, 1st Mayor of Mississauga (b. 1915) |
| 39354 | April 5 | Death | 1973 – John Coleman, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1928) |
| 39355 | April 5 | Death | 1974 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882) |
| 39356 | April 5 | Death | 1975 – Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1887) |
| 39357 | April 5 | Death | 1976 – Howard Hughes, American pilot, engineer, and director (b. 1905) |
| 39358 | April 5 | Death | 1976 – Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian surgeon and academic (b. 1891) |
| 39359 | April 5 | Death | 1979 – Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and painter (b. 1893) |
| 39360 | April 5 | Death | 1981 – Bob Hite, American singer-songwriter (Canned Heat) (b. 1945) |