About the day » Thursday April 2, 1959Calender converter

• Marie Paule LEPERLIER, L'Étang-Salé,97427,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE († 1960)
• Willem Pieter Grobecker, Hoograven, Utrecht, Nederland († 2018)
• Sjoerd Zijlstra, Nijega (Small.) († 2022)
• Catharina Sibilla Anna (Kitty) Mestrom, Roermond, Gemeente Roermond, Limburg, Nederland († 1959)
• Wilma Reuvers, Klundert
• Floyd Emerson Todd ****, Hopkins, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1959)
• Itamar Fransisco Back († 1970)
• Henry comte Visart de Bocarmé, Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Bruxelles (Belgique) († 2021)
• NN Leidelmeijer, 's Gravenhage († 1959)
• NN Koops, Haren († 1959)

• Adolph Hendrik Albersen (79), Wierden
• Alida Maria Johanna Vos (48), Amsterdam
• Alida Maria Johanna Vos (48), Amsterdam
• * Dirk Hermanus van Zanten (81), Utrecht
• Alida Teljeur (78), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus Cleijsen (70), Alphen en Riel
• Anna Bakker (74), Wijdewormer
• Adrianus Zut (6), Utrecht
• Abraham Sasburg (67), Leiden
• Adam Bijl (82)

• 1958 » Larry Drew, American basketball player and coach
• 1958 » Stefano Bettarello, Italian rugby player
• 1959 » Badou Ezzaki, Moroccan footballer and manager
• 1959 » David Frankel, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Gelindo Bordin, Italian runner
• 1959 » Juha Kankkunen, Finnish race car driver
• 1959 » Yves Lavandier, French director and producer
• 1960 » Brad Jones, Australian race car driver
• 1960 » Linford Christie, Jamaican-English sprinter
• 1960 » Pascale Nadeau, Canadian journalist

• 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)
• 1974 » Georges Pompidou, French banker and politician, 19th President of France (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Walter Wolf, German academic and politician (b. 1907)

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

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

• 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
• May 4 » The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
• June 14 » Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
• June 20 » A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
• July 21 » NSSavannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
• July 24 » At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
• October 21 » In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.

The temperature on April 2, 1959 was between 6.8 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.