About the day » Thursday February 16, 1893Calender converter

• * Willem van den Berg, 's Gravenhage († 1962)
• Alida Maria de Ronde, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aagje Schoone, Assendelft († 1975)
• Adrianus van der Hulst, Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1980)
• Alfred Adolphe Stiévenart, Boussu († 1893)
• Adriana Maria de Rooij, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1975)
• Adriaan Frijters, Fijnaart en Heijningen
• Aafke Douwes de Vries, apeldoorn († 1894)
• Adriana Wouterina van den Berge, Goes
• Adrianus van der Hulst, Hillegom, ZUI, Nederland († 1980)

• Ada Elva Baker (2)
• Arnoldina van Beckum (77), Oeffelt
• Arie van Viegen (0), Amerongen, Nederland
• Adriana van Rossum (0), Utrecht, U
• * Marius Baars (0), Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Albert Siegers de Jong (26), Smallingerland
• Antonie van Oirschot (79), Hilvarenbeek
• Adriana van Rossum (0), Utrecht
• Anthonette Aafje de Lange (37), Rotterdam
• Albert Gerard Lenselink (4), Gameren

• 1884 » Robert J. Flaherty, German-Irish American director and producer († 1951)
• 1886 » Andy Ducat, English international footballer (forward and manager) and Cricketer († 1942)
• 1887 » Kathleen Clifford, American actress († 1962)
• 1891 » Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic († 1968)
• 1893 » Katharine Cornell, American actress and producer († 1974)
• 1896 » Eugénie Blanchard, French super-centenarian († 2010)
• 1901 » Chester Morris, American actor († 1970)
• 1901 » Wayne King, American singer-songwriter and conductor († 1985)
• 1902 » Cyril Vincent, South African cricketer († 1968)
• 1903 » Edgar Bergen, Swedish-American ventriloquist and actor († 1978)

• 1862 » William Pennington American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1796)
• 1898 » Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843)
• 1899 » Félix Faure, French merchant and politician, 7th President of France (b. 1841)
• 1907 » Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1912 » Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
• 1917 » Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright ( (b. 1848)
• 1919 » Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
• 1928 » Eddie Foy Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
• 1932 » Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Hendrika
6. Elisabeth
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Aaltje
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Neeltje
15. Trijntje
16. Petronella

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• January 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
• May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
• August 27 » The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
• September 19 » In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
• September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
• November 1 » The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.

The temperature on February 16, 1893 was about 5.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.