About the day » Monday April 2, 1951Calender converter

• Laurentius (Loek) Schilder, Volendam († 2019)
• Franciscus Maria Petit, Delft († 1996)
• Paulus Maria (Paul) Kempen, Alkmaar († 2023)
• Jan Seijsener, Hillegom († 2003)
• Hendrik van der Weide, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2021)
• Zane Bernard SPRY († 2001)
• Vos, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1951)
• Carolyn Zita Kundert, Delphos, Van Wert County, Ohio, 45833, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Johanna Maria Cornelia Constantina Graafmans, Oirschot († 1997)
• Joop Ypma († 2006)

• Antonius Leenders (81), Ophoven, Kinrooi (B)
• Alida Gerardina Roukens (87), Rotterdam
• Antje Jans Hoekstra (71), St Annaparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Malinda Rogers (81), In
• Aukje Klazes van der Wal (77), Kollumerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Vos (0), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Ouendag (65), Sneek, 8600, Nederland
• Aukje van der Wal (77), Kollumerzwaag, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus Witlox (18), Breda
• Aloysius Van Gestel (72), Mol

• 1949 » Bernd Müller, German footballer
• 1949 » David Robinson, American drummer
• 1949 » Pamela Reed, American actress
• 1949 » Paul Gambaccini, American-English radio and television host
• 1950 » Lynn Westmoreland, American politician
• 1951 » Ayako Okamoto, Japanese golfer
• 1952 » Lennart Fagerlund, Swedish cyclist
• 1952 » Leon Wilkeson, American bass player and songwriter († 2001)
• 1952 » Will Hoy, English race car driver († 2002)
• 1953 » Jim Allister, Northern Irish lawyer and politician

• 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)
• 1966 » C. S. Forester, English novelist (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese martial artist and educator (b. 1887)

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

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

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
• March 15 » Iranian oil industry is nationalized.
• March 20 » Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
• April 11 » The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
• April 23 » Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
• June 14 » UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
• November 2 » Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours the next day.

The temperature on April 2, 1951 was between 3.9 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.