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• Margaretha Elizabeth Johanna Pijnenburg, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Kira Gaethofs, Diest († 1994)

• Catharina Maria Smetsers (65), Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Baars (91), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Corneel Costermans (82), Kappellen, Antwerpen, België
• Driesje Schuurman (77), Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Donald Lewis McCulley (66), Port Angeles, Clallam County, Washington
• Dirk Wolters (75), Marum
• Adrianus van Denderen (84), Zeist
• Clarence Wesley Berry (65)
• Bernard Kloft (63), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Bijl van der (78), Alphen aan den Rijn

• 1986 » Ibrahim Afellay, Dutch footballer
• 1987 » Marc Pugh, English footballer
• 1987 » Pablo Aguilar, Paraguayan footballer
• 1988 » Jesse Plemons, American actor
• 1990 » Miralem Pjanić, Bosnian footballer
• 1990 » Yevgeniya Kanayeva, Russian gymnast
• 1991 » Quavo, American rapper
• 1993 » Keshorn Walcott, Trinidadian javelin thrower
• 1997 » Abdelhak Nouri, Dutch footballer
• 1997 » Dillon Bassett, American race car driver

• 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)

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
• January 17 » The 6.7 M_w  Northridge earthquake shakes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
• April 26 » China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
• May 7 » Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
• July 8 » Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
• October 14 » Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.
• October 17 » Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.

The temperature on April 2, 1994 was between 1.4 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.