About the day » Wednesday April 2, 1975Calender converter

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

• * Volker de Vries (72), Tilburg
• Alida de Groot (80), Leiderdorp, ZUI, Nederland
• Bernardus Franciscus Antonius van Meer (66), Roosendaal (NL)
• Cornelis Dirk van Mourik (81)
• albert willems (66), boxmeer
• Christina Elizabeth Grijze (72), Zuidlaren
• Anna Catharina Willekes (80), Arnhem Gld. NL
• Dennis Fleet Todd **** (77), Wildersville, Henderson, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Adolf Brinks (69)
• Cornelia Catharina Bakker (59), Heemstede

• 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)

• 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.
• January 8 » Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
• June 26 » Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
• July 5 » Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
• July 27 » Mayor of Jaffna and former MP Alfred Duraiappah is shot dead.
• August 15 » Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
• November 28 » East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.

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.