About the day » Tuesday April 2, 1929Calender converter

• August SCHMIDT, Wiesmoor,Aurich,NIEDERSACHSEN,DEUTSCHLAND († 2020)
• Beerens, Munstergeleen, Limburg, Nederland
• Aime Honore de MOL, Onkerzele, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1990)
• Arnoldo Arns († 2016)
• Anna Henriette Klumpen, Breyell, Viersen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany († 1986)
• Annechien Hamminga, Bedum († 1984)
• Anna Maria Gezina (Annie) Gras, Ooster Lage Egge († 2021)
• Cornelis Karel Nab, Ede († 2000)
• Cornelia Anna Maartje Hof, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1978)
• Charlotte Fay Vincent, Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 2017)

• Bartholomeus Lodewijk Wiertz (64), Kerkrade
• Albert van de Ven (1), Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Vuik (1), Rotterdam
• Antje Klomp (80), Den Helder, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Bruyninckx (64), Antwerpen
• Abraham van der Ent (77), Rhoon, Albrandswaard, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Schreuders (100), Doetinchem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Luijsterburg (63), Bergen op Zoom
• Amalie Theresie Landgraf (77), Mittelfrohna, Chemnitzer Land, Saxony, Germany
• Adriana Kort (38), Nieuwerkerk (Zld)

• 1927 » Billy Pierce, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2015)
• 1927 » Carmen Basilio, American boxer and soldier († 2012)
• 1927 » Howard Callaway, American soldier and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Army († 2014)
• 1927 » Rita Gam, American actress († 2016)
• 1928 » David Robinson, Northern Irish horticulturist and academic († 2004)
• 1928 » Joseph Bernardin, American cardinal († 1996)
• 1928 » Roy Masters, English-American radio host
• 1928 » Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter, actor, and director († 1991)
• 1929 » Ed Dorn, American poet and educator († 1999)
• 1930 » Roddy Maude-Roxby, English actor

• 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)
• 1948 » Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet (b. 1907)
• 1953 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)

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

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

• 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
• April 6 » Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• June 17 » The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
• July 24 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
• August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
• October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
• October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

The temperature on April 2, 1929 was between 1.8 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.