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• Alle (Albert) Louwsma, Piaam († 1979)
• Agnes Løkke Jakobsen, Husvågen, Bø i Vesterålen († 1971)
• Alberta OUWENS, Ridderkerk († 1893)
• Allen Lee Epperson, Franklin County, Tennessee
• Anna Nicol, Quebec
• Adrianus van Heiningen, lopik († 1984)
• Albert Beunders, Meppel
• Amanda Cuffez, Staden († 1955)
• Achilles-Leon HOUBRACKEN, Merelbeke, 9820, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen, België
• Waller, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1893)

• Allardus Reinerus Holwerda (81), Winkel (Noord-Holland)
• Adolfo BETTI (3), Savone, Ligurie, Italie
• Alexander Ogg (64), Ballindalloch, Banffshire, Scotland
• Aaltje Harms Vrolijk (71), Beneden Veensloot gemeente Menterwolde Groningen
• Anna Catharina van der Veeken (0), Gilze en Rijen
• Aaltje Harms Vrolijk (71), Meeden
• Adrianus Meeuws (73), Someren
• Abraham Zaaijer (67)
• Anna Catharina Van der Veeken (0), Gilze en Rijen
• Allardus Reinerus Holwerda (81), Winkel {NH}

• 1886 » Clara Nordström, Swedish-German author and translator († 1962)
• 1888 » Thomas Sopwith, English ice hockey player, sailor, and pilot († 1989)
• 1892 » Bill Meanix, American hurdler and coach († 1957)
• 1892 » Oliver Hardy, American actor and comedian († 1957)
• 1892 » Paul Rostock, German surgeon and academic († 1956)
• 1893 » Jorge Guillén, Spanish poet, critic, and academic († 1984)
• 1894 » Toots Mondt, American wrestler and promoter († 1976)
• 1896 » C. M. Eddy Jr., American author († 1967)
• 1896 » Ville Ritola, Finnish-American runner († 1982)
• 1898 » Albert Kivikas, Estonian journalist and author († 1978)

• 1849 » Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (b. 1752)
• 1862 » John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
• 1873 » Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, poet, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1803)
• 1878 » Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1788)
• 1886 » Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
• 1892 » Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
• 1923 » Wallace Reid, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891)
• 1936 » Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)
• 1936 » Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

• 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.
• April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
• July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
• August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
• 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.
• October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.

The temperature on January 18, 1893 was about -8.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.