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• van Hoorn, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1893)
• Vrouwgje Mina Otten, Heemse († 1915)
• Aagtje Willemina Wiersma, Pieterzijl (Gem. Grijpskerk), Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Catharina Schrunder, Nieuwer Amstel
• Alfred Walter Cooper, Butler, Pennsylvania
• Adriaan de Smit, Vlissingen († 1894)
• Aartje Hendrina BREE, Baarn (Utr.), Neth († 1893)
• Adriana Johanna Jacoba Schrijver, Weesp († 1985)
• Reinskje Eelkes de Jong, Heidenschap (Workum)
• Adriaan de Smit, Vlissingen († 1894)

• Antonie Johannes Koks (0), Monster
• Arie Dammise van 't Zelfde (62), Rotterdam
• Adeline Myrtle (Infant) VERCOE (0), Thames, New Zealand
• Aaltje van het Ende (64), Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje van 't Ende (65), Oldebroek
• Adriana van HELDEN (77), Rotterdam
• Arend Enklaar (73), Arnhem
• Aaltje van het Ende (64), Oldebroek, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Adriana Blom (22), Uitgeest
• Adriaan Cooremans (75), Baarle-Nassau

• 1888 » Adriaan Roland Holst, Dutch writer († 1976)
• 1888 » Zack Wheat, American baseball player and police officer († 1972)
• 1889 » Ernst Niekisch, German educator and politician († 1967)
• 1890 » Herbert Marshall, English-American actor and singer († 1966)
• 1891 » Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1892 » Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British peer and grandfather of Diana Spencer († 1975)
• 1896 » Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer († 1966)
• 1897 » Jimmie Guthrie, Scottish motorcycle racer († 1937)
• 1898 » Josef Terboven, German soldier and politician († 1945)
• 1898 » Scott O'Dell, American soldier, journalist, and author († 1989)

• 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)
• 1886 » Leopold von Ranke, German historian and academic (b. 1795)
• 1893 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (b. 1805)
• 1895 » Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1798)
• 1906 » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (b. 1828)
• 1908 » François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842)
• 1920 » Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
• 1921 » August Nilsson, Swedish shot putter and tug of war competitor (b. 1872)

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 17 » Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
• June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
• June 22 » The Royal Navy battleship HMSCamperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMSVictoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
• August 15 » Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
• November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
• December 4 » First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.

The temperature on May 23, 1893 was about 18.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.