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• Anna Wiegman, Amsterdam
• Carl Annes, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Bernard Clauw, Klerken († 1829)
• Anna Barbara Susong, Rockbridge County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 1864)
• Anne Therese Vanhove, Klerken († 1874)
• Anna Habina Alberda van Menkema, Groningen († 1795)
• Anna Habina ALBERDA, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1795)
• Alida van Rosse, Amsterdam († 1863)
• Aldegundis [Henricus] van der Aa, Duizel († 1835)
• Anna Catharina De Jonghe, Boom, 2850, Antwerpen, Belgium

• Cornelis van Gelderen, Vlaardingen
• Emmanuel Lonneville (35), Sint-Kruis, Brugge, West Vlaanderen, België
• Bernardus Groot Zevert (1), Beltrum
• Elisabeth Pietersdr Schenkeveld (25), Kethel
• Cornelis Cornelisz van Gelderen (43), Vlaardingen
• Enne(ken) Overbeek (55)
• Helena Sarah Lena Barkeloo (51), Pennsylvania, Somerset, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Eleanor Bunnell (51), Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• (57), Natrup-Hagen, Hannover
• Gerrit Overbeek (63)

• 1789 » Franz Schlik, Austrian earl and general († 1862)
• 1790 » James Pradier, French neoclassical sculptor († 1852)
• 1790 » Jules Dumont d'Urville, French admiral and explorer († 1842)
• 1794 » Ignaz Moscheles, Czech pianist and composer († 1870)
• 1795 » Charles Barry, English architect, designed the Upper Brook Street Chapel and Halifax Town Hall († 1860)
• 1800 » Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, Mexican general and president (1855) († 1877)
• 1810 » Margaret Fuller, American journalist and critic († 1850)
• 1817 » Manuel Robles Pezuela, Unconstitutional Mexican interim president († 1862)
• 1820 » James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge († 1887)
• 1820 » Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge († 1891)

• 1749 » Abraham ben Abraham, Polish martyr (b. 1700)
• 1752 » William Bradford, English-American printer (b. 1663)
• 1754 » John Wood, the Elder, English architect, designed The Circus and Queen Square (b. 1704)
• 1783 » James Otis, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1725)
• 1813 » Géraud Duroc, French general and diplomat (b. 1772)
• 1815 » Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (b. 1753)
• 1841 » Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
• 1855 » Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1857 » Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1789)
• 1868 » Kit Carson, American general (b. 1809)

• 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 » The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
• 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 13 » Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
• July 23 » Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
• October 16 » War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
• December 23 » The Battle of Savenay: A decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution.

The temperature on May 23, 1793 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.