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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd of April 1755 | EVENT | Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India. |
| 2nd of April 1792 | EVENT | The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint. |
| 2nd of April 1800 | EVENT | Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna. |
| 2nd of April 1801 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen : The British destroy the Danish fleet. |
| 2nd of April 1851 | EVENT | Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand. |
| 2nd of April 1863 | EVENT | Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies. |
| 2nd of April 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken : Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat. |
| 2nd of April 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. |
| 2nd of April 1885 | EVENT | Cree warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories, Canada, killing 9. |
| 2nd of April 1900 | EVENT | The Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule. |
| 2nd of April 1902 | EVENT | "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California. |
| 2nd of April 1902 | EVENT | Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg. |
| 2nd of April 1911 | EVENT | The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census. |
| 2nd of April 1917 | EVENT | World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. |
| 2nd of April 1930 | EVENT | After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia. |
| 2nd of April 1945 | EVENT | Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established. |
| 2nd of April 1956 | EVENT | As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS-TV. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format. |
| 2nd of April 1962 | EVENT | The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London. |
| 2nd of April 1972 | EVENT | Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s. |
| 2nd of April 1973 | EVENT | Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service. |
| 2nd of April 1973 | EVENT | The Liberal Movement breaks away from the Liberal and Country League in South Australia. |
| 2nd of April 1975 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops. |
| 2nd of April 1975 | EVENT | Construction of the CN Tower is completed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It reaches 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure. |
| 2nd of April 1980 | EVENT | President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U.S. economy rebound. |
| 2nd of April 1982 | EVENT | Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands. |
| 2nd of April 1984 | EVENT | Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched aboard Soyuz T-11, and becomes the first Indian in space. |
| 2nd of April 1989 | EVENT | Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations. |
| 2nd of April 1991 | EVENT | Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia. |
| 2nd of April 1992 | EVENT | In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison. |
| 2nd of April 2002 | EVENT | Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues. |
| 2nd of April 2004 | EVENT | Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted. |
| 2nd of April 2006 | EVENT | Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; hardest hit is in Tennessee with 29 people killed. |
| 2nd of April 2011 | EVENT | India crowned World Champions after defeating Sri Lanka in the final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. |
| 2nd of April 0742 | BIRTHDAY | Charlemagne (d. 814) |
| 2nd of April 1527 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598) |
| 2nd of April 1545 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth of Valois, third wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1568) |
| 2nd of April 1565 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (d. 1599) |
| 2nd of April 1614 | BIRTHDAY | Jahanara Begum Sahib, daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. 1681) |
| 2nd of April 1618 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663) |
| 2nd of April 1647 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Sibylla Merian, German botanist (d. 1717) |
| 2nd of April 1653 | BIRTHDAY | Prince George of Denmark, prince consort of Anne of England (d. 1708) |
| 2nd of April 1719 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (d. 1803) |
| 2nd of April 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer (d. 1798) |
| 2nd of April 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Bhagwan Swaminarayan, religious leader (d. 1830) |
| 2nd of April 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (d. 1862) |
| 2nd of April 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelmine Reichard, first German women balloonist (d. 1848) |
| 2nd of April 1798 | BIRTHDAY | August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (d. 1874) |
| 2nd of April 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875) |
| 2nd of April 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879) |
| 2nd of April 1827 | BIRTHDAY | William Holman Hunt, English painter (d. 1910) |
| 2nd of April 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Gambetta, French statesman (d. 1882) |
| 2nd of April 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902) |
| 2nd of April 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Clement Ader, French aviation pioneer (d. 1926) |
| 2nd of April 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1947) |
| 2nd of April 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Eugen Sandow, German bodybuilder and circus performer (d. 1925) |
| 2nd of April 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (d. 1928) |
| 2nd of April 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (d. 1940) |
| 2nd of April 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Sir John Squire, British poet, writer, and historian (d. 1958) |
| 2nd of April 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Max Ernst, German painter (d. 1976) |
| 2nd of April 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d. 1942) |
| 2nd of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Tschichold, German typographer (d. 1974) |
| 2nd of April 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (d. 1987) |
| 2nd of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Appling, American baseball player (d. 1991) |
| 2nd of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (d. 2003) |
| 2nd of April 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Triquet, Canadian military officer (d. 1980) |
| 2nd of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Mills, American singer (The Mills Brothers) (d. 1989) |
| 2nd of April 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000) |
| 2nd of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Dabbs Greer, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Monte, American singer (d. 1989) |
| 2nd of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Webb, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1982) |
| 2nd of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Clifford Scott Green, American Federal Judge (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Gloria Henry, American actress |
| 2nd of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | G. Spencer-Brown, English mathematician |
| 2nd of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | George MacDonald Fraser, English author (d. 2008) |
| 2nd of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver |
| 2nd of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Ferenc Puskas, Hungarian footballer (d. 2006) |
| 2nd of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Tynan, English critic and writer (d. 1980) |
| 2nd of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Basilio, American boxer |
| 2nd of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Bernardin, American cardinal (d. 1996) |
| 2nd of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991) |
| 2nd of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Prof David Robinson, Irish horticulturist (d. 2004) |
| 2nd of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Egan, Cardinal-Archbishop Emeritus of New York |
| 2nd of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Gyorgy Konrad, Hungarian Jewish author, sociologist, essayist |
| 2nd of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Glover, British actor and wrestler (d. 1997) |
| 2nd of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Kasell, American newscaster |
| 2nd of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Radatz, American baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | John Larsson, 17th General of The Salvation Army |
| 2nd of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Booker Little, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1961) |
| 2nd of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Marvin Gaye, American singer (d. 1984) |
| 2nd of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Lise Thibault, Lieutenant-governor of Quebec |
| 2nd of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Lake, American political figure |
| 2nd of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Penelope Keith, English actress |
| 2nd of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Demento, American radio personality |
| 2nd of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Russell, American blues-rock pianist/guitarist |
| 2nd of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Roshan Seth, Indian actor |
| 2nd of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroyuki Sakai, Japanese chef |
| 2nd of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Caterina Bueno, Italian singer (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Hunt, American actress |
| 2nd of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Smith, American baseball player |
| 2nd of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Don Sutton, American baseball player |
| 2nd of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Waldman, American poet |
| 2nd of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Judith A. Lanzinger, American jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio |
| 2nd of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist (The Guess Who) (d. 1997) |
| 2nd of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Emmylou Harris, American singer |
| 2nd of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Camille Paglia, American feminist writer |
| 2nd of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Mitropanos, Greek singer |
| 2nd of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Joan D. Vinge, American author |
| 2nd of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | David Robinson, American musician |
| 2nd of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gambaccini, British television presenter |
| 2nd of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Palillo, American actor |
| 2nd of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Reed, American actress |
| 2nd of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Moriteru Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist |
| 2nd of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ayako Okamoto, Japanese golfer |
| 2nd of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Drummond, Australian singer-songwriter |
| 2nd of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Thierry Le Luron, French humorist (d. 1986) |
| 2nd of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Wilkeson, American rock bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2001) |
| 2nd of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Allister, Northern Irish politician |
| 2nd of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Debralee Scott, American actress (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Susumu Hirasawa, Japanese electropop musician |
| 2nd of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Stone, British terrorist |
| 2nd of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Giuliana De Sio, Italian actress |
| 2nd of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Bettarello, Italian rugby player |
| 2nd of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Drew, American basketball player |
| 2nd of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Juha Kankkunen, Finnish race car driver |
| 2nd of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Yves Lavandier, French film director |
| 2nd of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Badou Zaki, Morrocan footballer and manager |
| 2nd of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Linford Christie, English athlete |
| 2nd of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Jones, Australian racing driver |
| 2nd of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Keren Woodward, English singer (Bananarama) |
| 2nd of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Meloni, American actor |
| 2nd of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Clark Gregg, American actor |
| 2nd of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Carles, French documentarist |
| 2nd of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Shulman, American children's author |
| 2nd of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Beattie, English television director and producer |
| 2nd of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Gascoyne, British engineer |
| 2nd of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Incaviglia, American baseball player |
| 2nd of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney King, American victim of police brutality |
| 2nd of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Romanowski, American football player |
| 2nd of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Teddy Sheringham, English footballer |
| 2nd of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Garnett Silk, Jamaican singer (d. 1994) |
| 2nd of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Camp, American musician (Smash Mouth) |
| 2nd of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Chamberlain, British television presenter |
| 2nd of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ajay Devgan, Indian actor |
| 2nd of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Elton, German comedian |
| 2nd of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player |
| 2nd of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | ZEEBRA, Japanese hip hop artist |
| 2nd of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Chico Slimani, Moroccan-British singer |
| 2nd of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Roselyn Sanchez, Puerto Rican singer, model and actress |
| 2nd of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tine Wittler, German TV presenter and writer |
| 2nd of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Hakan Hellstrom, Swedish musician |
| 2nd of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski, German rower |
| 2nd of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Livingston, American basketball player |
| 2nd of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Rodriguez, American actor |
| 2nd of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer |
| 2nd of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Anastasopoulos, Greek shot putter |
| 2nd of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jelena Abbou, Serbian fitness model |
| 2nd of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Aiden Turner, British actor |
| 2nd of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Fassbender, actor |
| 2nd of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | John Gall, American baseball player |
| 2nd of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Carmichael, American musician (Maroon 5) |
| 2nd of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Fleming, English reporter |
| 2nd of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Salcido, Mexican footballer |
| 2nd of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Cristian Lizzori, Italian footballer |
| 2nd of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Hendrick, NASCAR driver and owner (d. 2004) |
| 2nd of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Clarke, Australian cricketer |
| 2nd of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Bethany Joy Lenz-Galeotti, American actress |
| 2nd of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Amelia, Italian footballer |
| 2nd of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Bianca Chatfield, Australian netballer |
| 2nd of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Bloom, American skier and football player |
| 2nd of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Evans, American professional wrestler |
| 2nd of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Leyla Milani, Canadian actress and model |
| 2nd of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Borja, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 2nd of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Yung Joc, American rapper |
| 2nd of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Capdeville, Chilean tennis player |
| 2nd of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nora Barta, Hungarian diver |
| 2nd of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Peldon, American actress |
| 2nd of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Meryl Cassie, New Zealand actress |
| 2nd of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Stephane Lambiel, Swiss figure skater |
| 2nd of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ibrahim Afellay, Dutch footballer |
| 2nd of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Lee DeWyze, American singer |
| 2nd of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Castle, American actress |
| 2nd of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Felipe Chalegre, Brazilian footballer |
| 2nd of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Miralem Pjanic, Bosnian footballer |
| 2nd of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffery Johnson, Jr., American rapper |
| 2nd of April 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Kelly, American singer |
| 2nd of April 1118 | DEATH | Baldwin I of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem (Born c. 1058) |
| 2nd of April 1272 | DEATH | Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1209) |
| 2nd of April 1335 | DEATH | Duke Henry of Carinthia (Born c. 1265) |
| 2nd of April 1412 | DEATH | Ruy Gonzales de Clavijo, Spanish traveler and writer |
| 2nd of April 1502 | DEATH | Prince Arthur Tudor, son of Henry VII of England (Born 1486) |
| 2nd of April 1507 | DEATH | Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (Born 1416) |
| 2nd of April 1640 | DEATH | Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish author and prominent Latin poet (Born 1595) |
| 2nd of April 1657 | DEATH | Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1608) |
| 2nd of April 1657 | DEATH | Jean-Jacques Olier : French catholic priest, founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (Born 1608) |
| 2nd of April 1720 | DEATH | Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (Born 1647) |
| 2nd of April 1742 | DEATH | James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (Born 1675) |
| 2nd of April 1747 | DEATH | Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (Born 1684) |
| 2nd of April 1754 | DEATH | Thomas Carte, English historian (Born 1686) |
| 2nd of April 1787 | DEATH | Thomas Gage, British general (Born 1719) |
| 2nd of April 1791 | DEATH | Honore Gabriel Riqueti, French statesman (Born 1749) |
| 2nd of April 1801 | DEATH | Thomas Dadford Junior, British canal engineer (Born c. 1761) |
| 2nd of April 1803 | DEATH | Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician and judge (Born 1721) |
| 2nd of April 1817 | DEATH | Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (Born 1740) |
| 2nd of April 1827 | DEATH | Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (Born 1776) |
| 2nd of April 1845 | DEATH | Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (Born 1763) |
| 2nd of April 1865 | DEATH | General A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (Born 1825) |
| 2nd of April 1872 | DEATH | Samuel F. B. Morse, American painter and inventor of the telegraph (Born 1791) |
| 2nd of April 1891 | DEATH | Albert Pike, American Confederate Brigadier General, envoy, author, attorney, and Freemason (Born 1809) |
| 2nd of April 1902 | DEATH | Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (Born 1814) |
| 2nd of April 1914 | DEATH | Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1830) |
| 2nd of April 1922 | DEATH | Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (Born 1884) |
| 2nd of April 1928 | DEATH | Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1868) |
| 2nd of April 1930 | DEATH | Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (Born 1876) |
| 2nd of April 1936 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Eugene Estienne, French general (Born 1860) |
| 2nd of April 1953 | DEATH | Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (Born 1885) |
| 2nd of April 1958 | DEATH | Tudor Davies, Welsh operatic tenor (Born 1892) |
| 2nd of April 1958 | DEATH | Josei Toda, Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai (Born 1900) |
| 2nd of April 1966 | DEATH | C. S. Forester, English author (Born 1899) |
| 2nd of April 1972 | DEATH | Franz Halder, German general (Born 1884) |
| 2nd of April 1972 | DEATH | Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (Born 1924) |
| 2nd of April 1972 | DEATH | Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese Martial Arts Grandmaster (Born 1887) |
| 2nd of April 1974 | DEATH | Georges Pompidou, President of France (Born 1911) |
| 2nd of April 1977 | DEATH | Walter Wolf, German politician (Born 1907) |
| 2nd of April 1987 | DEATH | Buddy Rich, American drummer (Born 1917) |
| 2nd of April 1992 | DEATH | Juan Gomez Gonzalez, Spanish football player (Born 1954) |
| 2nd of April 1992 | DEATH | Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (Born 1929) |
| 2nd of April 1994 | DEATH | Betty Furness, American actress (Born 1916) |
| 2nd of April 1995 | DEATH | Hannes Alfven, Swedish physicist (Born 1908) |
| 2nd of April 1995 | DEATH | Harvey Penick, American golf instructor (Born 1904) |
| 2nd of April 1998 | DEATH | Rob Pilatus, American model and entertainer (Milli Vanilli) (Born 1965) |
| 2nd of April 2000 | DEATH | Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (Born 1928) |
| 2nd of April 2001 | DEATH | Charles Daudelin, Canadian artist (Born 1920) |
| 2nd of April 2001 | DEATH | Jennifer Syme, American actress (Born 1972) |
| 2nd of April 2003 | DEATH | Edwin Starr, American singer (Born 1942) |
| 2nd of April 2004 | DEATH | John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer (Born 1913) |
| 2nd of April 2005 | DEATH | Pope John Paul II (Born 1920) |
| 2nd of April 2006 | DEATH | Nina Schenk Grafin von Stauffenberg, German widow of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (Born 1913) |
| 2nd of April 2007 | DEATH | Paul Reed, American actor (Born 1909) |
| 2nd of April 2010 | DEATH | Chris Kanyon, American wrestler (Born 1970) |
| 2nd of April 2010 | DEATH | Mike Cuellar, Cuban baseball player (Born 1937) |
| 2nd of April 2010 | DEATH | Thomas J. Moyer, American jurist, Chief Justice Supreme Court of Ohio (Born 1939) |