About the day » Saturday April 29, 1893Calender converter

• Frans Baegen, utrecht
• Adrianus Hendrikus van Dam, Utrecht, Utr., NL († 1959)
• Adalgiza Parreira
• Aartje Visser, heenvliet († 1919)
• Alida Annetta CORVER, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aart Middelkoop, Vianen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1894)
• Adriana Antonia van der Gaag, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Kornet, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1897)
• Albert van der Kloot, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1981)
• Ebeltje Huizinga, Zeerijp

• Andries Jans Postma (0), Dantumadeel
• van der Knaap, Rozenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Boer (36), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aagje Henneman (0), Heiloo
• Aaltje Kleine (41), Hollandcheveld (Hoogeveen)
• Antje Antina Venema (3), Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Louise Briët (67), Soekaboemi
• Albert DELAMONTAGNE (63), Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Swets (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Askil HASSOUN (47), Constantine, Algérie

• 1887 » Raymond Thorne, American swimmer († 1921)
• 1891 » Bharathidasan, Indian poet and activist († 1964)
• 1893 » Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1894 » Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist and academic († 1970)
• 1895 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor († 1967)
• 1895 » Vladimir Propp, Russian scholar and critic († 1970)
• 1899 » Duke Ellington, American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 1974)
• 1899 » Mary Petty, American illustrator († 1976)
• 1900 » Amelia Best, Australian politician, one of the first women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly († 1979)
• 1900 » Concha de Albornoz, Spanish feminist and intellectual, exiled during the Spanish Civil War († 1972)

• 1854 » Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1768)
• 1903 » Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1835)
• 1905 » Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• 1916 » Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
• 1920 » William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)
• 1921 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)
• 1937 » William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853)
• 1944 » Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (b. 1851)
• 1945 » Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)

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 6 » The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
• March 1 » Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
• August 27 » The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
• October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
• November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
• November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.

The temperature on April 29, 1893 was about 11.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.