Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1893
Birthdays
- January 2 - Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
- January 4 - Yone Minagawa, Japanese
- January 5 - Zoltán Böszörmény, Hungarian Nazi politician (d. unknown)
- January 5 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)
- January 10 - Albert Jacka, Australian soldier
- January 12 - Hermann Göring, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
- January 12 - Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
- January 13 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
- January 13 - Clark Ashton Smith, American writer (d. 1961)
- January 15 - Ivor Novello, Welsh composer and actor (d. 1951)
- January 16 - Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
- January 20 - Georg Ĺberg, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
- January 22 - Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
- January 26 - Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)
- January 27 - Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
- February 2 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1974)
- February 2 - Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (d. 1970)
- February 3 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)
- February 8 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)
- February 10 - Jimmy Durante, American actor/comedian (d. 1980)
- February 10 - Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)
- February 12 - Omar Bradley, American general (d. 1981)
- February 15 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (d. 1947)
- February 17 - Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965)
- February 19 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke, British actor (d. 1964)
- February 20 - Russel Crouse, American playwright (d. 1966)
- February 20 - Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993)
- February 21 - Celia Lovsky, Russian-born actress (d. 1979)
- February 21 - Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987)
- February 26 - I. A. Richards, English literary critic (d. 1979)
- March 1 - Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite (d. 1968)
- March 3 - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (d. 1998)
- March 6 - Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981)
- March 7 - Milton Avery, American artist (d. 1965)
- March 18 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
- March 18 - Wilfred Owen, British poet (d. 1918)
- March 18 - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician (d. 1962)
- March 23 - Cedric Gibbons, American art director (d. 1960)
- March 24 - George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
- March 24 - Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
- March 26 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (d. 1964)
- March 27 - Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947)
- March 28 - Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971)
- March 31 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (d. 1954)
- April 1 - Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (d. 1980)
- April 3 - Leslie Howard, English actor (d. 1943)
- April 3 - Princess Maud of Fife, (d. 1945)
- April 5 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (d. 1973)
- April 7 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
- April 11 - Dean Acheson, American statesman (d. 1971)
- April 12 - Robert Harron, American actor (d. 1920)
- April 18 - Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)
- April 20 - Harold Lloyd, American actor (d. 1971)
- April 20 - Edna Parker, American supercentenarian
- April 20 - Joan Miró, Spanish painter (d. 1983)
- April 23 - Frank Borzage, American film director (d. 1952)
- April 26 - Draza Mihajlovic, Serbian WWII hero and war criminal (d. 1946)
- April 27 - Dragoljub Mihailović, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (d. 1946)
- April 27 - Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (d. 1939)
- April 29 - Harold Urey, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
- April 30 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946)
- May 3 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
- May 7 - Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (d. 1985)
- May 8 - Edd Roush, baseball player (d. 1988)
- May 8 - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (d. 1963)
- May 9 - William Moulton Marston, American psychologist
- May 14 - Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
- May 23 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
- May 26 - Norma Talmadge, American actress (d. 1957)
- May 26 - Eugčne Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (d. 1962)
- May 27 - Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentenarian (d. 2005)
- May 29 - Max Brand, American author and war correspondent (d. 1944)
- June 9 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
- June 13 - Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (d. 1957)
- June 14 - Siggie Nordstrom, Swedish singer (The Nordstrom Sisters) (d. 1980)
- June 21 - Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
- June 24 - Roy O. Disney, a founder of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)
- June 29 - Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
- June 30 - Walter Ulbricht, German politician (d. 1973)
- July 2 - Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center) (d. 1950)
- July 7 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981)
- July 9 - George Geary, English cricketer (d. 1981)
- July 14 - Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965)
- July 19 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1930)
- July 20 - George Llewelyn-Davies, English Peter Pan character model (d. 1915)
- July 21 - Hans Fallada, German writer (d. 1947)
- July 22 - Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
- July 22 - Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)
- July 30 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967)
- August 1 - King Alexander I of Greece, (d. 1920)
- August 6 - Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
- August 15 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950)
- August 17 - Mae West, American actress (d. 1980)
- August 18 - Ernest MacMillan, Canadian musician (d. 1973)
- August 18 - Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- August 22 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
- August 22 - Wilfred Kitching, British Salvation Army general (d. 1977)
- August 25 - Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962)
- August 30 - Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
- August 31 - Lily Laskine, French harpist (d. 1988)
- September 6 - Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958)
- September 10 - Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian
- September 11 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (d. 1974)
- September 13 - Larry Shields, American musician (d. 1953)
- September 16 - Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director (d. 1956)
- September 16 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist
- September 18 - Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer (d. 1960)
- September 18 - William March, American writer (d. 1954)
- September 26 - Gladys Brockwell, American actress (d. 1929)
- September 28 - Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer and dramatist (d. 1984)
- September 30 - Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964)
- October 1 - Cliff Friend, American songwriter (d. 1974)
- October 1 - Yip Man, Martial Arts Master (d. 1972)
- October 2 - Leroy Shield, American film score and radio composer (Our Gang
- October 9 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945)
- October 12 - Velvalee Dickinson, American spy (d. 1980)
- October 14 - Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)
- October 15 - King Carol II of Romania, (d. 1953)
- October 18 - Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966)
- October 20 - Charley Chase, American comedian (d. 1940)
- October 23 - Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
- October 30 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)
- October 30 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
- November 2 - Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (d. 1966)
- November 3 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist
- November 6 - Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)
- November 7 - Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
- November 8 - Clarence Williams, American composer (d. 1965)
- November 8 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII
- November 10 - John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
- November 19 - René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d. 1952)
- November 22 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)
- November 24 - Charles F. Hurley, 54th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
- December 12 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (d. 1973)
- December 17 - Erwin Piscator, German film director (d. 1966)
- December 24 - Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (Chattanooga Choo Choo
- December 26 - Mao Zedong, Chinese military leader and politician (d. 1976)
Deaths
- January 2 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
- January 7 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
- January 15 - Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (b. 1809)
- January 17 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
- January 23 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825)
- January 26 - Abner Doubleday, credited inventor of baseball (b. 1819)
- February 1 - George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
- February 18 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814)
- February 20 - P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)
- March 5 - Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. 1828
- March 17 - Jules Ferry, French statesman (b. 1832)
- April 22 - Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (b. 1825)
- May 14 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
- May 23 - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805)
- June 21 - Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University
- June 23 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)
- July 6 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
- July 17 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
- August 6 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
- August 7 - Alfredo Catalani, Italian musician (b. 1854)
- August 16 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (b. 1825)
- September 3 - James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816)
- September 15 - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807)
- September 19 - Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician
- October 10 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
- October 16 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta
- October 18 - Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
- October 30 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- November 4 - Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827)
- November 6 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
- November 22 - James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
Events
- January 1 - Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.
- January 2 - Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America introduces railroad chronometers.
- January 6 - The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
- January 13 - The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.
- January 13 - U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
- January 17 - The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- January 19 - Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin.
- January 21 - The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, was formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate which is now Botswana.
- February 1 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
- February 21 - Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and for a "Stop Device"
- February 24 - The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America.
- March 4 - Congo Free State: The army of Francis, Baron Dhanis attacks the Lualaba, enabling him to transport his troops across the Upper Congo and, capture Nyangwe almost without an effort.
- March 10 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.
- March 18 - Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
- April 6 - Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
- April 8 - The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
- May 1 - The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- May 10 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
- June 7 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
- June 13 - Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
- June 20 - Lizzie Borden is acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother.
- June 22 - The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
- June 27 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
- July 6 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
- July 11 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
- July 11 - A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
- August 14 - France introduces motor vehicle registration.
- September 7 - The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become the first Italian football club, is established by British expats.
- September 11 - First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held.
- September 16 - Settlers race in Oklahoma for prime land in the Cherokee Strip.
- September 19 - Women's suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
- September 22 - The first American-made automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.
- October 28 - Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its premiere performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.
- November 7 - Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
- November 12 - The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan
- November 28 - Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
- November 29 - Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.
- December 5 - First appearance of an electric car.
- December 16 - Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, "From The New World" was given its world premiere at Carnegie Hall.
- December 23 - The opera Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck was first performed.
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