About the day » Wednesday April 2, 1975Calender converter

• Addie Groen († 1980)
• Francine Meuwsen
• Frans Gerrit Altena, Groenlo, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Remco, Pieter, Johannes Tonkes († 1995)
• heroen harjes
• Joyce Langereis

• Alida de Groot (80), Leiderdorp
• Delphia A. WELBORN (79), Phoenix AZ
• Catharina Spijkerman (88), Zwolle
• Christina Hattke (57), Burnaby, Canada,BC
• Adriaan Cornelis Aalewijnse (67), Middelburg
• * Volker de Vries (72), Tilburg
• Alida de Groot (80), Leiderdorp, ZUI, Nederland
• Cornelia Catharina Bakker (59), Heemstede
• Adolf Brinks (69), Emmen
• Antje Feenstra (85), Zwartsluis

• 1973 » Aleksejs Semjonovs, Latvian footballer
• 1973 » Dmitry Lipartov, Russian footballer
• 1973 » Roselyn Sánchez, Puerto Rican-American actress
• 1974 » Tayfun Korkut, Turkish football manager and former player
• 1975 » Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski, German rower
• 1975 » Randy Livingston, American basketball player
• 1976 » Andreas Anastasopoulos, Greek shot putter
• 1976 » Pattie Mallette, Canadian author and film producer
• 1976 » Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer
• 1977 » Per Elofsson, Swedish skier

• 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 » Jan van Aartsen, Dutch politician (b. 1909)
• 1992 » Juanito, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1954)
• 1994 » Betty Furness, American actress, consumer advocate, game show panelist, television journalist and television personality (b. 1916)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. David
6. Mark
7. Michael
8. Patrick
9. Richard
10. Dennis
11. Robert
12. Hendrik
13. Paul
14. Martijn
15. Bart
16. Pieter

1. Maria
2. Monique
3. Sandra
4. Johanna
5. Wendy
6. Bianca
7. Linda
8. Cindy
9. Esther
10. Marieke
11. Judith
12. Patricia
13. Jennifer
14. Nicole
15. Miranda
16. Yvonne

• 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
• April 19 » India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
• April 30 » Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
• June 4 » The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
• June 25 » Mozambique achieves independence from Portugal.
• November 10 » The 729-foot-long freighter SSEdmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
• November 27 » The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.

The temperature on April 2, 1975 was between 1.4 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.