About the day » Tuesday August 15, 1893Calender converter

• Aaltje Baas, Delft, S.Holl., Neth
• Adorina Maria Johanna Verhaegen, Graauw en Langendam
• Andries Roelands, Gorichem († 1965)
• Aaltje Willems Venema, ,, Musselkanaal, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1967)
• Aaltje Bos, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Andreas Marinus Buenen, Den Dungen († 1977)
• Aaltje Venema, Musselkanaal († 1967)
• Albertus van Ree, Wijk bij Duurstede, Utr., NL († 1893)
• Antje van Duijvenbode, Rijnsburg († 1896)
• Alice Maria Vanquathem, Tielt

• Aaltje Uinkes ten Kate (85), Klijndijk
• Albert Victorin Van Cutsem (78), Halle, Vl-Brabant
• Arie Storm (67), Loosduinen
• Aaltje ten Kate (85), Klijndijk
• Antonius van Eijsden (80), MAASTRICHT, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Uinkes ten KATE (85), Klijnsdijk, gem. Odoorn
• Aaltje ten Kate gr (85), Klijndijk {DR}
• Aaltje Osnabrugge (35), Kortenhoef, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anneke Olgers (65)
• Anna Kopper (69), Beverwijk

• 1886 » Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer († 1974)
• 1890 » Jacques Ibert, French composer and educator († 1962)
• 1892 » Abraham Wachner, New Zealand politician, 35th Mayor of Invercargill († 1950)
• 1892 » Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1893 » Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and academic († 1950)
• 1896 » Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate († 1985)
• 1896 » Gerty Cori, Czech-American biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)
• 1896 » Paul Outerbridge, American photographer and educator († 1958)
• 1898 » Jan Brzechwa, Polish author and poet († 1966)
• 1900 » Estelle Brody, American silent film actress († 1995)

• 1852 » Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (b. 1760)
• 1859 » Nathaniel Claiborne, American farmer and politician (b. 1777)
• 1907 » Joseph Joachim, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1831)
• 1909 » Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian sociologist and journalist (b. 1866)
• 1917 » Thomas J. Higgins, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1831)
• 1925 » Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter and educator (b. 1878)
• 1928 » Anatole von Hügel, Italian ethnologist and academic, co-founded St Edmund's College, Cambridge (b. 1854)
• 1935 » Paul Signac, French painter and author (b. 1863)
• 1935 » Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
• 1935 » Will Rogers, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1879)

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.
• April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
• June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
• June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
• July 11 » The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
• July 22 » Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• 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.

The temperature on August 15, 1893 was about 18.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.