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• Anna Catharina Kürten, Ratingen, Homberg, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Barend Jacobs van Sloten, Workum, Friesland, Nederland († 1838)
• Adriaan Schellekens, Gilze
• Anna Scheurbiers, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1861)
• Aaltje Jacobs Stada, West-Terschelling, Friesland, Nederland († 1853)
• Archibald Campbell, Hurd Corners, Dutchess County, New York, United States of America († 1871)
• Antje van den Berg, Noordwijk
• Bastianus Lambertus du Bois, Geertruidenberg († 1827)
• Admiral Sir Charles Burrard, 2nd Bt.of Lymington, Dorking, Surrey, England († 1870)
• Arien Cornelisz Balder, of Alkmaar, No. Holland, Neth († 1854)

• Aaltje -, Wanswerd
• Geert Antoon Meerten (78), Noord-Sleen
• Aleidis Ceelen (70), Kleine-Brogel, Limburg, België
• Agneta SCHUTTE (87), Rouveen
• Anne Catherine Dillen (78), Overwinden
• Elisabeth van de Goor (5), Breugel
• Catharina, Catharijntjen Willems Teunissen, Thonissen (73), Hall, Brummen, Gekderland
• Ellertjen Everts, Elspeet
• Christine Charlotte Margaretha van Stöcken (75), Ely, Cambridgeshire
• Edmund Wendell (57), Antigua

• 1769 » DeWitt Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of New York († 1828)
• 1770 » Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French general († 1826)
• 1779 » Joel Roberts Poinsett, American physician and politician, 15th United States Secretary of War († 1851)
• 1793 » Sam Houston, American soldier and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Texas († 1863)
• 1800 » Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian-Italian poet and philosopher († 1844)
• 1810 » Pope Leo XIII († 1903)
• 1816 » Alexander Bullock, American lawyer and politician, 26th Governor of Massachusetts († 1882)
• 1817 » János Arany, Hungarian journalist and poet († 1882)
• 1820 » Multatuli, Dutch writer († 1887)
• 1824 » Bedřich Smetana, Czech pianist and composer († 1884)

• 1729 » Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (b. 1662)
• 1755 » Louis de Rouvroy, French duke and diplomat (b. 1675)
• 1791 » John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (b. 1703)
• 1793 » Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-Danish painter and academic (b. 1711)
• 1797 » Horace Walpole, English historian and politician (b. 1717)
• 1829 » Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, Mexican revolutionary (b. ca. 1773)
• 1830 » Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, German physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (b. 1755)
• 1835 » Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
• 1840 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)
• 1855 » Nicholas I, Russian emperor (b. 1796)

• 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 23 » Second Partition of Poland.
• June 24 » The French Constitution of 1793 is formally adopted, although it is effectively suspended by the Committee of Public Safety.
• September 5 » French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
• October 16 » French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.
• November 16 » French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.
• December 9 » New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.

The temperature on March 2, 1793 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zwaar storm(achtig) regen.