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• Anna van de Water, Vlijmen († 1827)
• Catharina Jacoba Kleijn, Delft († 1869)
• Anna Margarita Van Kalmthout, Oud en Nieuw Gastel († 1851)
• Aafje Kooyman, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1793)
• Alexandrina Adriana Vercruysen, Haasdonk (Oost-Vlaanderen, België)
• Barbe MATHIOT, Metz (57), France († 1865)
• Antje Gerrits Kok, Oosterend Terscheling
• Catharina Jacoba Klein, Delft († 1869)
• Christoph Augenstein, Ellmendingen, Enzkreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany († 1855)
• Boeree, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Anna Maria D'Hondt, Roborst
• Anna Leijten (80), Hage (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Benjamin Hamilton (70), Redding, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
• Frederik Blansjaar (3), Leiden
• Francois Joseph Valet (5), Troisvilles (F)
• Gijsje van Raampt (6), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Geneviève Blosse dit Belhumeur (35), Québec, Quebec, Canada
• Gerardus BEREBROUX (56), Bilzen (Limburg), België
• Gertrudis van Swolligen (50), Alphen
• Anna van Belois (33)

• 1743 » Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer and educator († 1818)
• 1781 » Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher († 1848)
• 1792 » Joseph Crosfield, English businessman († 1844)
• 1795 » Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian brewer and politician, 13th Mayor of Halifax († 1873)
• 1803 » Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, Danish-German painter († 1844)
• 1816 » Ursula Frayne, Irish-Australian nun and missionary († 1885)
• 1817 » Catherine Cooper Hopley, British author and naturalist († 1911)
• 1820 » David Wilber, American lawyer and politician († 1890)
• 1824 » Henry Chadwick, English-American historian and author († 1908)
• 1829 » Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States († 1886)

• 1714 » Kaibara Ekken, Japanese botanist and philosopher (b. 1630)
• 1740 » Jean-Philippe Baratier, German astronomer and scholar (b. 1721)
• 1777 » Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
• 1802 » Sanité Bélair, Haitian freedom fighter (b. 1781)
• 1805 » Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1738)
• 1813 » Tecumseh, American tribal leader (b. 1768)
• 1827 » William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (b. 1761)
• 1848 » Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (b. 1781)
• 1861 » Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
• 1880 » Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819)

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)
• March 18 » Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden.
• 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.
• July 9 » The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves and will free those who are born into slavery after the passage of the Act at 25 years of age.
• August 10 » The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
• October 16 » French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.
• November 10 » A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.

The temperature on October 5, 1793 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.