| 40681 | April 8 | Death | 2002 – Harvey Quaytman, American painter (b. 1937) |
| 40682 | April 8 | Death | 2004 – Werner Schumacher, German actor (b. 1921) |
| 40683 | April 8 | Death | 2006 – Gerard Reve, Dutch author and poet (b. 1923) |
| 40684 | April 8 | Death | 2007 – Sol LeWitt, American painter and sculptor (b. 1928) |
| 40685 | April 8 | Death | 2008 – Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943) |
| 40686 | April 8 | Death | 2009 – Richard de Mille, American Scientologist, author, investigative journalist, and psychologist (b. 1922) |
| 40687 | April 8 | Death | 2009 – Piotr Morawski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1976) |
| 40688 | April 8 | Death | 2010 – Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter and fashion designer (b. 1946) |
| 40689 | April 8 | Death | 2010 – Teddy Scholten, Dutch singer (b. 1926) |
| 40690 | April 8 | Death | 2011 – Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American painter and photographer (b. 1910) |
| 40691 | April 8 | Death | 2012 – Bram Bart, Dutch voice actor (b. 1962) |
| 40692 | April 8 | Death | 2012 – John Egan, Irish footballer (b. 1952) |
| 40693 | April 8 | Death | 2012 – Blair Kiel, American football player and coach (b. 1961) |
| 40694 | April 8 | Death | 2012 – Jack Tramiel, Polish-American businessman, founded Commodore International (b. 1928) |
| 40695 | April 8 | Death | 2012 – Janusz K. Zawodny, Polish-American soldier, historian, and political scientist (b. 1921) |
| 40696 | April 8 | Death | 2013 – Mikhail Beketov, Russian journalist (b. 1958) |
| 40697 | April 8 | Death | 2013 – Richard Brooker, English actor and stuntman (b. 1954) |
| 40698 | April 8 | Death | 2013 – Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (b. 1942) |
| 40699 | April 8 | Death | 2013 – Sara Montiel, Spanish-Mexican actress and singer (b. 1928) |
| 40700 | April 8 | Death | 2013 – José Luis Sampedro, Spanish economist and author (b. 1917) |
| 40701 | April 8 | Death | 2013 – Margaret Thatcher, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1925) |
| 40702 | April 8 | Death | 2014 – Emmanuel III Delly, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1927) |
| 40703 | April 8 | Death | 2014 – Karlheinz Deschner, German author and activist (b. 1924) |
| 40704 | April 8 | Death | 2014 – Eric Harroun, American criminal (b. 1982) |
| 40705 | April 8 | Death | 2014 – Ivan Mercep, New Zealand architect, designed the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum (b. 1930) |
| 40706 | April 8 | Death | 2014 – Adrianne Wadewitz, American scholar and academic (b. 1977) |
| 40707 | April 8 | Death | 2014 – The Ultimate Warrior, American wrestler (b. 1959) |
| 40708 | April 8 | Death | 2015 – Jayakanthan, Indian journalist and author (b. 1934) |
| 40709 | April 8 | Death | 2015 – Rayson Huang, Hong Kong chemist and academic (b. 1920) |
| 40710 | April 8 | Death | 2015 – Sergei Lashchenko, Ukrainian kick-boxer (b. 1987) |