page_title: 2011 in the United States
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 2011 in the United States / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of William N. Lipscomb, Jr. at his desk.
context_page_description: Events in the year 2011 in the United States.
context_section_description: April 1 – Lou Gorman, American baseball manager (b. 1929)
  April 2
  Larry Finch, college basketball player and coach (b. 1951)
  John C. Haas, chemical engineer (b. 1918)
  Bill Varney, film sound editor (b. 1934)
  April 3 – William Prusoff, pharmacologist (b. 1920)
  April 4 – Ned McWherter, 46th governor of Tennessee from 1987 till 1995. (b. 1930)
  April 5
  Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Nobel physician (b. 1925)
  Larry Shepard, American baseball manager (b. 1919)
  April 6
  Skip O'Brien, actor (b. 1950)
  F. Gordon A. Stone, chemist (b. 1925).
  April 7 – Edward Edwards, murderer and one-time member of the FBI's most wanted list (b. 1933)
  April 9
  Jerry Lawson, video game pioneer (b. 1940)
  Sidney Lumet, film director (b. 1924)
  April 10 – Homer Smith, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
  April 12
  Sidney Harman, businessman and publisher (b. 1918)
  Eddie Joost, American baseball player and manager (b. 1916)
  April 14
  Walter Breuning, former current oldest living man and third oldest man ever (b. 1896)
  Cyrus Harvey Jr., film distributor (b. 1925)
  William Lipscomb, Nobel chemist (b. 1919)
  Arthur Marx, writer (b. 1921)
  April 16
  William A. Rusher, magazine publisher (b. 1923)
  Sol Saks, television writer (b. 1910)
  April 17 – Joel Colton, historian (b. 1918)
  April 18 – William Donald Schaefer, 58th governor of Maryland from 1987 till 1995. (b. 1921)
  April 19
  Lynn Chandnois, American football player (b. 1925)
  Norm Masters, American football player (b. 1933)
  April 20
  Chris Hondros, photojournalist (b. 1970)
  Madelyn Pugh, television writer (b. 1921)
  Gerard Smith, guitarist (b. 1974)
  April 21
  Harold Garfinkel, sociologist (b. 1917)
  Max Mathews, electrical engineer (b. 1926)
  April 22 – Merle Greene Robertson, archaeologist (b. 1913)
  April 23 – Phillip Shriver, historian and college president (b. 1922)
  April 25 – Joe Perry, American football player (b. 1927)
  April 26 – Jim Mandich, American football player (b. 1948)
  April 27 – Marian Mercer, actress (b. 1935)
  April 28 – William Campbell, actor (b. 1926)
caption: William Lipscomb
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