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March 15, 1993Died on Tuesday March 16, 1993
- Alfred Kowalski (72), Gdynia
- Anna Irma Juliana Croes (83), Nazareth (B)
- Anna Godefrieda Pieket (86), Terborg
- Egbert TORENBEEK (83)
- Cornelia Jacoba Esveldt (60), Alphen aan den Rijn
- Egbertus Hoenderken (85), Zuidlaren
- Elisabeth Hornschemeijer (78), Boxtel
- Adriana Johanna van Riel (83), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Adriana Cornelia Verkooijen (79), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Elisabeth Hornschemeijer (78), Helvoirt, Brabant (North), Netherlands
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from March 16, 1993 at Delpher
Born on March 16
- 1989 » Blake Griffin, American basketball player
- 1989 » Jung So-min, South Korean actress
- 1989 » Magalie Pottier, French racing cyclist
- 1990 » Andre Young, American basketball player
- 1991 » Reggie Bullock, American basketball player
- 1991 » Wolfgang Van Halen, American bassist
- 1993 » George Ford, English rugby union player
- 1993 » Marine Lorphelin, Miss France
- 1994 » Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
- 1995 » Inga Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater
Died on March 16
- 1988 » Jigger Statz, American baseball player (b.1897)
- 1988 » Mickey Thompson, American race car driver (b. 1928)
- 1990 » Ernst Bacon, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1898)
- 1991 » Chris Austin, American country singer (b .1964)
- 1991 » Jean Bellette, Australian artist (b. 1908)
- 1992 » Yves Rocard, French physicist and engineer (b. 1903)
- 1994 » Eric Show, American baseball player (b. 1956)
- 1998 » Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- 1998 » Esther Bubley, American photographer (b. 1921)
- 1999 » Gratien Gélinas, Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1909)
Names that were popular for boys in 1993
- Jeroen
- Thomas
- Michael
- Tim
- Jan
- Kevin
- Bart
- Robin
- Dennis
- Sander
- Mark
- Johannes
- Jacob
- Rick
- Hendrik
- Ruben
Names that were popular for girls in 1993
- Iris
- Lisa
- Laura
- Maria
- Tessa
- Melissa
- Anna
- Anne
- Sanne
- Sophie
- Eline
- Jessica
- Sarah
- Michelle
- Kelly
- Amanda
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1993
- 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.
- The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
- January 7 » The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
- January 14 » In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved.
- March 12 » North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
- March 24 » Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
- April 11 » Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
- May 5 » Three eight-year-old boys are murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, Ultimately leading to the conviction of the West Memphis Three.
Weather March 16, 1993
The temperature on March 16, 1993 was between 7.2 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.