About the day » Sunday February 5, 1893Calender converter

• * Wilhelmina Geertruida Gieben, Arnhem
• Alberta Stap, Tiel, Nederland
• Alida Hogendoorn, Oudewater Wijk B, nr. 5 († 1907)
• * Jan Lunshof, Assen († 1982)
• Albertus de Ruiter, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van den Bergh, Steenbergen († 1893)
• Alida HOGENDOORN, Oudewater († 1907)
• Adriana Boertje, Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1985)
• Adriana van der Kreeft, Vreeswijk/Utrecht († 1919)
• Alida Hoogendoorn, Oudewater, Nederland († 1907)

• Knoll (0), Lindloh, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Atte Jochems Nieuwenhout (53), Lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Agnes Apollonia Emilie Dumonceau (71), Loon op Zand, N.B
• Camille Madeleine Le Peletier de Rosanbo (80)
• Boeckemeier (0), Iowa
• Agnes Apoline Emélie Dumonceau (71), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Atte Jochems Nieuwenhout (53), Oosterzee
• Arend Jans Abbink (69), Rekken (Berkelland) 14
• Anna Maria Toelen (66), Haarlem
• Ardina Maria de Kleijn (6), Mill en Sint Hubert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1880 » Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer († 1973)
• 1889 » Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer († 1962)
• 1889 » Patsy Hendren, English cricketer and footballer († 1962)
• 1889 » Recep Peker, Turkish officer and politician († 1950)
• 1891 » Renato Petronio, Italian rower († 1976)
• 1892 » Elizabeth Ryan, American tennis player († 1979)
• 1897 » Dirk Stikker, Dutch businessman and politician, 3rd Secretary General of NATO († 1979)
• 1900 » Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 1965)
• 1903 » Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist († 1975)
• 1903 » Koto Matsudaira, Japanese diplomat, ambassador to the United Nations († 1994)

• 1881 » Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (b. 1795)
• 1882 » Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish orientalist and diplomat (b. 1841)
• 1892 » Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ross Barnes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1850)
• 1917 » Jaber II Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Christiaan de Wet, South African general and politician, State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1854)
• 1922 » Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (b. 1871)
• 1927 » Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator (b. 1882)
• 1931 » Athanasios Eftaxias, Greek politician, 118th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1849)
• 1933 » Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician (b. 1863)

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.
• February 1 » Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
• March 1 » Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
• August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
• September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
• November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
• December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

The temperature on February 5, 1893 was about -3.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.