About the day » Sunday March 12, 1893Calender converter

• VAN COMPERNOLLE († 1970)
• Albertus van Breugel, Sint-Michielsgestel, Nederland († 1896)
• Agatha Johanna Maria Beel, Haarlemmermeer
• van Ochten, Asperen (West Betuwe) (GL) († 1893)
• Agatha Kinkel, Rijnsaterwoude(ZH)
• Adriana in't Veld, Maasdam
• Albert Spek, Leimuiden, Nederland († 1893)
• Adriaan Strijd, Wissenkerke (Noord-Beveland), Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Josepha Jansen, Helmond
• Adrianus Johannes Aupers, Amsterdam NL († 1900)

• Antonia Verhoef(F) (68), Woudenberg, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna van der Veeken (83), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• van Ochten (0), Asperen (West Betuwe) (GL)
• Albertus DE VROOME (1), Hoogersmilde (NL/DR)
• Anna Van der Veeken (88), Etten-Leur
• Arend de Vries (61), Odoorn
• Arend Thees van Schoten (62), Duur (Olst)
• Antonia Verhoeff (68), Woudenberg
• Aaltje Zoet (74), Doornspijk
• Adriana Christina Jordan (71), Rotterdam

• 1883 » Sándor Jávorka, Hungarian botanist († 1961)
• 1888 » Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor († 1965)
• 1888 » Walter Hermann Bucher, German-American geologist and paleontologist († 1965)
• 1890 » Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player († 1976)
• 1896 » Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and musician († 1976)
• 1898 » Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and politician († 1984)
• 1898 » Tian Han, Chinese playwright († 1968)
• 1899 » Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer († 1955)
• 1900 » Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia († 1975)
• 1900 » Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete († 1972)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

• 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 13 » U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USSBoston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
• June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
• July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
• July 11 » A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
• August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
• 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.

The temperature on March 12, 1893 was about 6.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.