| 38011 | April 2 | Death | 1923 – Topal Osman, Turkish colonel (b. 1883) |
| 38012 | April 2 | Death | 1928 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868) |
| 38013 | April 2 | Death | 1930 – Zewditu I of Ethiopia (b. 1876) |
| 38014 | April 2 | Death | 1933 – Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (b. 1872) |
| 38015 | April 2 | Death | 1936 – Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860) |
| 38016 | April 2 | Death | 1948 – Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet (b. 1907) |
| 38017 | April 2 | Death | 1953 – Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885) |
| 38018 | April 2 | Death | 1958 – Tudor Davies, Welsh tenor and actor (b. 1892) |
| 38019 | April 2 | Death | 1958 – Jōsei Toda, Japanese educator and activist (b. 1900) |
| 38020 | April 2 | Death | 1965 – Nils Kihlberg, Swedish actor, singer, and director (b. 1915) |
| 38021 | April 2 | Death | 1966 – C. S. Forester, Egyptian-American author (b. 1899) |
| 38022 | April 2 | Death | 1972 – Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884) |
| 38023 | April 2 | Death | 1972 – Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924) |
| 38024 | April 2 | Death | 1972 – Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese martial artist and educator (b. 1887) |
| 38025 | April 2 | Death | 1974 – Georges Pompidou, French banker and politician, 19th President of France (b. 1911) |
| 38026 | April 2 | Death | 1977 – Walter Wolf, German academic and politician (b. 1907) |
| 38027 | April 2 | Death | 1987 – Buddy Rich, American drummer, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1917) |
| 38028 | April 2 | Death | 1989 – Manolis Angelopoulos, Greek singer (b. 1939) |
| 38029 | April 2 | Death | 1990 – Ted Hook, Australian public servant (b. 1910) |
| 38030 | April 2 | Death | 1992 – Juanito, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1954) |
| 38031 | April 2 | Death | 1992 – Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor, producer, and martial artist (b. 1929) |
| 38032 | April 2 | Death | 1994 – Betty Furness, American actress and journalist (b. 1916) |
| 38033 | April 2 | Death | 1995 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) |
| 38034 | April 2 | Death | 1995 – Harvey Penick, American golfer and coach (b. 1904) |
| 38035 | April 2 | Death | 1997 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese director and producer (b. 1910) |
| 38036 | April 2 | Death | 1998 – Rob Pilatus, American singer and dancer (Milli Vanilli and Rob & Fab) (b. 1965) |
| 38037 | April 2 | Death | 2000 – Tommaso Buscetta, Italian-American mobster (b. 1928) |
| 38038 | April 2 | Death | 2001 – Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor and painter (b. 1920) |
| 38039 | April 2 | Death | 2001 – Jennifer Syme, American actress and production assistant (b. 1972) |
| 38040 | April 2 | Death | 2002 – Levi Celerio, Filipino composer and songwriter (b. 1910) |