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Born on Saturday April 2, 1994
Died on Saturday April 2, 1994

Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from April 2, 1994 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 1994
  1. Thomas
  2. Jeroen
  3. Jan
  4. Kevin
  5. Michael
  6. Willem
  7. Robin
  8. Johannes
  9. Niels
  10. Daniel
  11. Rick
  12. Dennis
  13. Max
  14. David
  15. Tim
  16. Jacob
Names that were popular for girls in 1994
  1. Laura
  2. Anne
  3. Lisa
  4. Tessa
  5. Michelle
  6. Sanne
  7. Anna
  8. Melissa
  9. Charlotte
  10. Eva
  11. Amanda
  12. Esther
  13. Elisabeth
  14. Johanna
  15. Iris
  16. Eline

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1994
  • 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.
  • April 27 » South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
  • May 2 » A bus crashes in Gdańsk, Poland killing 32 people.
  • June 27 » Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
  • October 12 » The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
  • November 7 » WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
  • December 14 » Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.
Weather April 2, 1994

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.

Source: KNMI