About the day » Thursday January 5, 1893Calender converter

• Abraham Pieter Wouters, Veere († 1894)
• Adriana Luteijn, Nieuwvliet, Zeeland, NL († 1984)
• Aagje Best, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1963)
• Adriaan Zwiep, Rotterdam († 1958)
• Aartje Schenk, Elburg
• Adrian Heneveld, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1964)
• Albert Jochems Nijdam, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland († 1893)
• Akke Gerrits de Koe, Sint Annaparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland († 1984)
• Alexander van der Weiden, 's Gravenzande
• Aartje Schenk, Elburg

• Anna Catharina van Puijenbroek (19), Hilvarenbeek
• Albert Welbergen (2), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Annegien Koiter (77), Kropswolde gem. Hoogezand
• Amelie Vandermeersch, Oostnieuwkerke
• Albert Visser (Visscher,Fisser) (70), Hattem, Nederland
• Aaltje Teunis Bus (68), Laren
• Jacobsen (76), Arnhem
• Adriaan Wesdorp (43), Kralingen
• Anna Smit (79), Noordwijk
• BIERMANS (0), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1882 » Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist († 1958)
• 1885 » Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet and civil servant († 1940)
• 1886 » Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer († 1976)
• 1892 » Agnes von Kurowsky, American nurse († 1984)
• 1893 » Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian-American guru and philosopher († 1952)
• 1897 » Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher and author († 1945)
• 1900 » Yves Tanguy, French-American painter († 1955)
• 1902 » Hubert Beuve-Méry, French journalist († 1989)
• 1902 » Stella Gibbons, English journalist and author († 1989)
• 1903 » Harold Gatty, Australian pilot and navigator († 1957)

• 1858 » Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
• 1860 » John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (b. 1811)
• 1883 » Charles Tompson, Australian poet and public servant (b. 1806)
• 1885 » Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1922 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)

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.
• January 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
• June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
• September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
• 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 January 5, 1893 was about -8.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.