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Born on Friday April 2, 1993
Died on Friday April 2, 1993

Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from April 2, 1993 at Delpher


Born on April 2

Died on April 2
  • 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)
  • 1994 » Marc Fitch, British historian and philanthropist (b. 1908)
  • 1995 » Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
  • 1997 » Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese director and producer (b. 1910)
  • 1998 » Rob Pilatus, American-German singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
  • 2001 » Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor and painter (b. 1920)

Names that were popular for boys in 1993
  1. Jeroen
  2. Thomas
  3. Michael
  4. Tim
  5. Jan
  6. Kevin
  7. Bart
  8. Robin
  9. Dennis
  10. Sander
  11. Johannes
  12. Mark
  13. Jacob
  14. Rick
  15. Hendrik
  16. Ruben
Names that were popular for girls in 1993
  1. Iris
  2. Lisa
  3. Laura
  4. Maria
  5. Tessa
  6. Melissa
  7. Anna
  8. Anne
  9. Sanne
  10. Sophie
  11. Eline
  12. Jessica
  13. Sarah
  14. Michelle
  15. Kelly
  16. Amanda

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1993
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 3 » In Moscow, Russia, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
  • April 8 » The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations.
  • August 28 » The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
  • October 3 » An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
  • October 4 » Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
  • December 10 » The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
Weather April 2, 1993

The temperature on April 2, 1993 was between 0.4 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.

Source: KNMI