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• Abraham Smink, Ellecom († 1957)
• ADRIAANTJE van OEVEREN, BRUINISSE († 1978)
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• Aaltje Dijk, Olst († 1975)
• Adriaan Dubbelman, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Hendrikus van den Oord, Ammerzoden, Gelderland, Nederland († 1969)
• Aloïs Pas, Londerzeel († 1965)
• Alle van der Wal, Kooten, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1918)
• Aagje Swakman, Bergen, Nederland
• (Stillborn) FEITSMA, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1893)

• Anna Willems Kobus (73), Bergum
• Anskjen Feenstra (91), Wonseradeel (Frl)
• Arnoldus_Hendrik Markus (0), Den Haag
• Barbera Hermans (67), Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Barbara Hermans, Urmond, Stein, Limburg, Netherlands
• Arie Zuidervaart (11), Aarlanderveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barbara Hermans (67), Urmond, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Willems Kobus- (73), Bergum, Nederland
• Anne de Haan (0), Kollumerzwaag, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Standaert (1), Terneuzen

• 1887 » Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia († 1947)
• 1890 » Conrad Richter, American journalist and novelist († 1968)
• 1891 » Irene Rich, American actress († 1988)
• 1893 » Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle († 1971)
• 1895 » Mike Gazella, American baseball player and manager († 1978)
• 1899 » Piero Dusio, Italian footballer, businessman and race car driver († 1975)
• 1900 » Gerald Marks, American composer († 1997)
• 1902 » Arna Bontemps, American librarian, author, and poet († 1973)
• 1902 » Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic († 1987)
• 1904 » Wilfred Pickles, English actor and radio host († 1978)

• 1869 » Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French poet, author, and critic (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher and author (b. 1816)
• 1890 » Samuel Freeman Miller, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1816)
• 1904 » Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain (b. 1870)
• 1905 » Henry Irving, English actor and manager (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher and academic (b. 1849)
• 1911 » Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian social worker, author, and educator (b. 1867)
• 1917 » Florence La Badie, American actress (b. 1888)
• 1919 » Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1926 » Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philologist and author (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 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
• February 28 » The USSIndiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
• 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.
• August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
• September 20 » Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.

The temperature on October 13, 1893 was about 9.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.