About the day » Wednesday April 2, 1969Calender converter

• Marinus Cornelis Verboon, Groningen († 1992)
• Rienk Frans Zwerver, Groningen
• Paul Rijmenants, Heist-op-den-Berg, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2007)
• Marinus Cornelis (Martin) Verboon, Groningen († 1992)
• James Rigterink († 1978)
• Daniel Gene Schaver († 1969)

• Charlotte, Wilhelmine Dezentjé (81), Amsterdam (noord-holland)
• Cleda M. Croddy Richardson (68), Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana
• Barbara Martens (82), Meers-Elsloo (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Weeshoff (83), Graft ( De Rijp)
• Cecilia (70)
• Adriana Maria van der Griend (77), Leeuwarden
• Charlotte Wilhelmina Dezentjé (81), Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Geerlings (83), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antoon van den Heuvel (58), Bakel en Milheeze
• Bernardus Jacobus Hendriks (72), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1966 » Bill Romanowski, American football player and actor
• 1966 » Teddy Sheringham, English international footballer, striker and coach
• 1967 » Greg Camp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 » Phil Demmel, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1969 » Ajay Devgan, Indian actor, director, and producer
• 1971 » Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto, Brazilian footballer
• 1971 » Jason Lewry, English cricketer
• 1971 » Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player and sportscaster
• 1972 » Calvin Davis, American sprinter and hurdler
• 1972 » Remo D'Souza, Indian choreographer and dancer

• 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)
• 1987 » Buddy Rich, American drummer, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1917)
• 1989 » Manolis Angelopoulos, Greek singer (b. 1939)
• 1992 » Juanito, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1954)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Richard
6. Hendrik
7. Cornelis
8. Edwin
9. Mark
10. Michael
11. Marcel
12. David
13. Pieter
14. Willem
15. Patrick
16. Ronald

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Sandra
5. Elisabeth
6. Jolanda
7. Esther
8. Karin
9. Ingrid
10. Yvonne
11. Anna
12. Petra
13. Miranda
14. Cornelia
15. Anita
16. Catharina

• 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
• January 12 » The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
• May 21 » Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
• August 9 » Followers of Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
• November 10 » National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
• November 20 » Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
• November 21 » The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.

The temperature on April 2, 1969 was between 2.3 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.