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• Albert Taekes Kingma, Wanswerd
• Zondervan, Wymbritseradeel
• Adriana Hellemons, Oudenbosch
• Adrianus Marinus Langeveld, Wassenaar († 1894)
• Albert Hogenhout († 1943)
• Abram Smies, Holland Township, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin († 1968)
• Aaltje Bredewold, Zwollerkerspel (Gem. Zwolle)
• Aafke Wielsma, Broekhuizen, Ruinerwold,Drenthe, Netherlands
• Aaltjen Bokhove, Ambt Almelo, aan de Zoetensteeg († 1895)
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• Amelia Emily Bloom (72), Lumber City, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States
• Amandus BONTE (69), Esen
• Antoon HESSELING (5), Weesp,Noord-Holland,Netherlands
• Antonetta Daniels (57), Weert
• Aagje Bertoen (31), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Geers (60), Halsteren, Nederland
• Antonius Albers (47), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amelia E. Smith (70), Bates, Greenville County South Carolina, United States of America
• Aaltje Frens Hartgers (1), Hoogeveen
• Antje Wardenaar (66), Wieringerwaard, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1888 » Will Hay, English actor, director, and screenwriter († 1949)
• 1890 » Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author († 1946)
• 1890 » Rudolf Schlichter, German painter and illustrator († 1955)
• 1890 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic († 1951)
• 1892 » Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian captain, poet, and author († 1969)
• 1893 » Homer N. Wallin, American admiral († 1984)
• 1893 » Sylvia Townsend Warner, English author and poet († 1978)
• 1896 » Ira Gershwin, American songwriter († 1983)
• 1898 » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist († 1995)
• 1898 » John McDonald, Scottish-Australian politician, 37th Premier of Victoria († 1977)

• 1867 » Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
• 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1878 » Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1879 » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814)
• 1882 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)
• 1882 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
• 1892 » Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
• 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (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.
• April 6 » Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
• July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
• 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.
• 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.
• November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.

The temperature on December 6, 1893 was about 2.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.