About the day » Thursday December 21, 1893Calender converter

• Nn Gruppen, Zuidwolde († 1893)
• Antonia van Offeren, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1895)
• Anton van Grieken, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1982)
• Alida de Bruin, Wijk bij Duurstede († 1930)
• Alethia Bent, Parish of Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
• Anna Maria Parker, Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Alwine Emilie Streich, Chatham Township († 1969)
• Anna Catharina Maria van der Burg, Berkel en Rodenrijs
• Andre Cliné, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1971)
• Alida de Bruin, Wijk bij Duurstede († 1930)

• Adriana Johanna van den Bosch (49), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Albertje Reints Smilde (58), Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriaan Hendrikse (44), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Agatha Hoogland (80), Ter Aar (Kerkbuurt)
• Anna Catharina Biermans (72), Vlodrop, Roerdalen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Anna Elisabeth Morren (1), Maastricht
• Albertien Harms Laning (71), Roden, Drenthe, Netherlands(Steenbergen)
• Albert Johannes de Jong (59), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Oosterling (80), Vlist
• Anna Catharina van EIJK (74), Tilburg

• 1884 » María Cadilla, Puerto Rican writer, educator, women's rights activist († 1951)
• 1885 » Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1960)
• 1888 » Jean Bouin, French runner and rugby player († 1914)
• 1889 » Sewall Wright, American geneticist and biologist († 1988)
• 1890 » Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1891 » John William McCormack, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1980)
• 1892 » Rebecca West, English journalist and author († 1983)
• 1892 » Walter Hagen, American golfer († 1969)
• 1896 » Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II († 1968)
• 1900 » Luis Arturo González López, Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president († 1965)

• 1869 » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
• 1873 » Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)

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.
• April 6 » Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
• July 11 » A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
• July 22 » Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• 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 December 21, 1893 was about 3.9 °C. There was 8 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.