2 April
Notable Births
Brenda Fruhvirtová
b. 2007
Czech tennis player (born 2007)
Diana Shnaider
b. 2004
Russian tennis player (born 2004)
Emma Myers
b. 2002
American actress (born 2002)
Rodrigo Riquelme (footballer, born 2000)
b. 2000
Spanish footballer
Josip Stanišić
b. 2000
Croatian footballer (born 2000)
Dillon Bassett
b. 1997
American racing driver
Abdelhak Nouri
b. 1997
Dutch footballer (born 1997)
Austin Riley
b. 1997
American baseball player (born 1997)
Zach Bryan
b. 1996
American country singer-songwriter (born 1996)
André Onana
b. 1996
Cameroonian footballer (born 1996)
David Ferrer
b. 1982
Spanish tennis player (born 1982)
Michael Fassbender
b. 1977
German-Irish actor (born 1977)
Pedro Pascal
b. 1975
Chilean and American actor (born 1975)
Rodney King
b. 1965
Black American victim of police brutality (1965–2012)
Emmylou Harris
b. 1947
American singer, songwriter, and musician (born 1947)
Marvin Gaye
b. 1939
American singer and songwriter (1939–1984)
Alec Guinness
b. 1914
English actor (1914–2000)
Max Ernst
b. 1891
German artist (1891–1976)
William Holman Hunt
b. 1827
Pre-Raphaelite English artist (1827–1910)
Hans Christian Andersen
b. 1805
Danish writer (1805–1875)
Notable Deaths
Khamtai Siphandone
d. 2025
President of Laos (1924–2025; served 1998–2006)
John Barth
d. 2024
American writer (1930–2024)
Maryse Condé
d. 2024
French Guadeloupean author (1934–2024)
Larry Lucchino
d. 2024
American lawyer and baseball executive (1945–2024)
John Sinclair (poet)
d. 2024
American poet and activist (1941–2024)
Juan Vicente Pérez
d. 2024
Venezuelan supercentenarian (1909–2024)
Estelle Harris
d. 2022
American actress (1928–2022)
Simon Bainbridge
d. 2021
British composer (1952–2021)
Alma Delia Fuentes
d. 2017
Mexican actress (1937–2017)
Gallieno Ferri
d. 2016
Italian comic book artist (1929–2016)
Manoel de Oliveira
d. 2015
Portuguese film director, screenwriter and racing driver (1908–2015)
Robert Schuller
d. 2015
American television evangelist (1926–2015)
Steve Stevaert
d. 2015
Belgian politician (1954–2015)
Urs Widmer
d. 2014
Swiss novelist, playwright (1938–2014)
Fred (cartoonist)
d. 2013
French comics artist
Jesús Franco
d. 2013
Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor (1930–2013)
Milo O'Shea
d. 2013
Irish actor (1926–2013)
Elizabeth Catlett
d. 2012
American artist and sculptor (1915–2012)
Mauricio Lasansky
d. 2012
Argentine artist and educator
Pope John Paul II
d. 2005
Head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005