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• Alphonsius van Bokhoven, Vlijmen († 1972)
• - van Hoorn, Venlo, Limburg, Nederland († 1918)
• Catharina Johanna Terlouw († 2009)
• Anne Penninga, Haren, NL-GR († 1920)
• Alice Annie "Beryl" Richardson #7278*10 († 1979)
• Alberta Wilhelmina Paulina van Rijmenam, 's-Gravenhage († 2010)
• Aaltje Pureveen, Amersfoort († 1983)
• aldegonda petronella (gon) haenraets, helden-panningen († 2000)
• van der Veen, Scheveklap, Groningen, Nederland († 1918)
• Antje Tuininga, Ferwerderadeel († 2012)

• Arie STOUT (0), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
• Adriana van den Aardweg (87), Lisse
• Aattje (ook: Attje) IJpma (75), Sint Annaparochie (Het Bildt-Fr)
• Adalaid Hutchinson (47), Elmwood, Tuscola, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Abel FOLGERS (0), IL. (USA)
• Abraham Post (42), Voorburg, Nederland
• Antonia TIMMER (74), Den Haag
• Aattje Ypma (75), Sint Annaparochie (Het Bildt-Fr)
• Andries Luhrman (73), Rotterdam Nederland
• 112 Jantien Meinders (58), Eexterveen Anloo

• 1914 » Alec Guinness, English actor († 2000)
• 1919 » Delfo Cabrera, Argentinian runner and soldier († 1981)
• 1920 » Gerald Bouey, Canadian lieutenant and civil servant († 2004)
• 1920 » Jack Stokes, English animator and director († 2013)
• 1920 » Jack Webb, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1982)
• 1922 » John C. Whitehead, American banker and politician, 9th United States Deputy Secretary of State († 2015)
• 1923 » G. Spencer-Brown, English mathematician, psychologist, and author († 2016)
• 1923 » Gloria Henry, American actress
• 1923 » Johnny Paton, Scottish footballer, coach, and manager († 2015)
• 1924 » Bobby Ávila, Mexican baseball player († 2004)

• 1894 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1803)
• 1896 » Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Bryn Lewis, Welsh international rugby player (b.1891)
• 1923 » Topal Osman, Turkish colonel (b. 1883)
• 1928 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1930 » Zewditu I of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Édouard Estaunié, French novelist (b. 1862)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Albert
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Johan

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Aaltje
12. Jacoba
13. Geertruida
14. Helena
15. Margaretha
16. Grietje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
• January 27 » Beginning of the Finnish Civil War.
• March 21 » World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
• April 1 » The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
• June 22 » The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
• October 12 » A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
• November 21 » A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles.

The temperature on April 2, 1918 was between 1.2 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.