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• Aleide Geertuij van der Vegt
• Remmelt Pit, Den Dal (Oldemarkt)
• Anna Maria Holterman, Wyler, Kranenburg, NRW, Germany
• Allegonda Peeters, Budel († 1840)
• Adrianus van Bodegom, dirksland (goeree overflakkee) († 1875)
• Aleida Geertruij van der Vegte, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1851)
• (Chris)stoffer Ruuls, Sappemeer, Groningen, Nederland († 1831)
• Abraham Pelletier, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, L'Islet, Québec, Canada
• Anje Kornelis Keizer, Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland († 1831)
• Aaltje van der Plaats, Utrecht († 1873)

• Margaret Corbett (84), Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Elders (73)
• Jan de Bont (73), Ramsdonk, 1880, Kapelle-op-den-Bos, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
• Jannetje Claas ( Roose ) Beerends (58), Urk
• Maria Gertrud Tobergte (0), Hagen-Mentrup, Fürstbistum Osnabrück
• Joannes Hendrickx (64), Meer, Provincie Antwerpen
• Janneke de Minje (75), Dinteloord, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna "Catharina" Christina Schulte (Schimps) (47), Siddinghausen
• Anna Maria Bill (59), , Dorchheim, HE, Duitsland
• Jannetjen Claas (Roos) Beerends (58), Urk

• 1762 » Charles Frederick Horn, German-English composer and educator († 1830)
• 1767 » Rama II of Siam († 1824)
• 1774 » Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge († 1850)
• 1786 » Martin W. Bates, American lawyer and politician († 1869)
• 1786 » Wilhelm Grimm, German anthropologist, author, and academic († 1859)
• 1788 » Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian-German painter († 1857)
• 1827 » Lydia Becker, English-French activist († 1890)
• 1831 » Leo von Caprivi, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany († 1899)
• 1835 » Julius Vogel, English-New Zealand journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1899)
• 1836 » Winslow Homer, American painter and illustrator († 1910)

• 1721 » John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English poet and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1648)
• 1732 » Francis Charteris, Scottish soldier (b. 1675)
• 1777 » Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
• 1785 » Carlo Buonaparte, Corsican lawyer and politician (b. 1746)
• 1799 » Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (b. 1742)
• 1810 » Henry Cavendish, French-English physicist and chemist (b. 1731)
• 1812 » Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
• 1815 » Robert Fulton, American engineer (b. 1765)
• 1825 » Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)
• 1856 » Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Joannes
8. Gerrit
9. Jacob
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Klaas
14. John
15. Leendert
16. Adrianus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Trijntje
7. Catharina
8. Grietje
9. Neeltje
10. Aaltje
11. Joanna
12. Adriana
13. Marie
14. Jannetje
15. Antje
16. Elizabeth

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• January 13 » Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
• February 1 » French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
• May 15 » Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5–6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights.
• September 18 » The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.
• November 3 » French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
• November 10 » A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.

The temperature on February 24, 1793 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.