| 37711 | April 2 | Birth | 742 – Charlemagne, Frankish king (d. 814) |
| 37712 | April 2 | Birth | 1348 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1385) |
| 37713 | April 2 | Birth | 1545 – Elisabeth of Valois (d. 1568) |
| 37714 | April 2 | Birth | 1565 – Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (d. 1599) |
| 37715 | April 2 | Birth | 1614 – Dodo, Chinese prince (d. 1649) |
| 37716 | April 2 | Birth | 1614 – Jahanara Begum, Indian daughter of Shah Jahan (d. 1681) |
| 37717 | April 2 | Birth | 1618 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663) |
| 37718 | April 2 | Birth | 1647 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German-Dutch botanist and illustrator (d. 1717) |
| 37719 | April 2 | Birth | 1653 – Prince George of Denmark (d. 1708) |
| 37720 | April 2 | Birth | 1719 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (d. 1803) |
| 37721 | April 2 | Birth | 1725 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian explorer and author (d. 1798) |
| 37722 | April 2 | Birth | 1788 – Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet and author (d. 1862) |
| 37723 | April 2 | Birth | 1788 – Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist (d. 1848) |
| 37724 | April 2 | Birth | 1789 – Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentinian general and politician (d. 1871) |
| 37725 | April 2 | Birth | 1792 – Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada (d. 1840) |
| 37726 | April 2 | Birth | 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and academic (d. 1874) |
| 37727 | April 2 | Birth | 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author and poet (d. 1875) |
| 37728 | April 2 | Birth | 1814 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879) |
| 37729 | April 2 | Birth | 1827 – William Holman Hunt, English soldier and painter (d. 1910) |
| 37730 | April 2 | Birth | 1835 – Jacob Nash Victor, American engineer (d. 1907) |
| 37731 | April 2 | Birth | 1838 – Léon Gambetta, French lawyer and politician, 45th Prime Minister of France (d. 1882) |
| 37732 | April 2 | Birth | 1840 – Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist (d. 1902) |
| 37733 | April 2 | Birth | 1841 – Clément Ader, French engineer, designed the Ader Avion III (d. 1926) |
| 37734 | April 2 | Birth | 1861 – Iván Persa, Slovenian priest and author (d. 1935) |
| 37735 | April 2 | Birth | 1862 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947) |
| 37736 | April 2 | Birth | 1867 – Eugen Sandow, German-English bodybuilder (d. 1925) |
| 37737 | April 2 | Birth | 1869 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (d. 1928) |
| 37738 | April 2 | Birth | 1875 – Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (d. 1940) |
| 37739 | April 2 | Birth | 1875 – William Donne, English cricketer and captain (d. 1942) |
| 37740 | April 2 | Birth | 1884 – J. C. Squire, English poet, author, and historian (d. 1958) |