About the day » Tuesday April 2, 1771Calender converter

• Dirkje van der Meer, Rotterdam († 1843)
• Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm von Stechow († 1859)
• antoine françois félix jh FLOQUET, Dour (Belgium) Hainaut
• Anna Catharina Konig, Mettingen, Pruisen, Duitsland
• Adrianus Gille (Giele), Hontenisse, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1796)
• Arnoldus van der Putten, Aarle
• Franciscus VAN SOOM, Pulle,2243,Antwerpen,Vlaanderen,BELGIË († 1799)
• Dirkje van der MEER, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1843)
• Catharina Rijckaert, Sinaai-Waas
• Eugène Joseph COLIN, Jumet, 6040, Hainaut, Belgique

• Berend Voorhorst (Jans) (51), Welsum (Gem. Olst)
• Claas Wouters Van WAASBERGEN (1), Mijnsheerenland
• Catharine Merckaert (76), Moerbeke, OVld, Be
• Anna van Rosenlund (84), Gudum (Aalborg), Jutland
• Anna Barbara Merckelbach (6), Schinnen
• Cornelis Nagtegaal (Nachtigal), Zuilen, PAYS-BAS
• Adrianus Servatius VAN DUN (0), Ravels, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• August Heinemann (47), Berleburg, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Anna Barbara Merkelbach (6), Schinnen, Nederland
• Berend Jan Voorhorst (67), Welsum

• 1719 » Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet († 1803)
• 1725 » Giacomo Casanova, Italian explorer and author († 1798)
• 1788 » Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet and author († 1862)
• 1788 » Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist († 1848)
• 1789 » Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentinian general and politician († 1871)
• 1792 » Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada († 1840)
• 1798 » August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and academic († 1874)
• 1805 » Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet († 1875)
• 1814 » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor († 1879)
• 1814 » Henry L. Benning, American general and judge († 1875)

• 1720 » Joseph Dudley, English politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1647)
• 1742 » James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)
• 1747 » Johann Jacob Dillenius, German-English botanist and mycologist (b. 1684)
• 1754 » Thomas Carte, English historian and author (b. 1686)
• 1787 » Thomas Gage, English general and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1719)
• 1791 » Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and politician (b. 1749)
• 1801 » Thomas Dadford, Jr., English engineer (b. 1761)
• 1803 » Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1721)
• 1817 » Johann Heinrich Jung, German author and academic (b. 1740)
• 1827 » Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and educator (b. 1776)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• February 12 » Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
• May 16 » The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
• July 14 » Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
• July 17 » Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
• October 17 » Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.

The temperature on April 2, 1771 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: ijs.