About the day » Wednesday April 5, 1893Calender converter

• Abraham Buitenkant, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1894)
• Alberdina TANNEMAAT, Westendorp († 1893)
• Alida Jacoba van Balen, Beverwijk († 1918)
• Duijm, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Holtkamp, Delfzijl († 1893)
• Alberta Cornelia van der Vlist, Rotterdam
• Aafje de Wijn, Den Helder
• Aalbert de Ruiter, Geldermalsen († 1961)
• Aalbert de Ruiter, Geldermalsen († 1961)
• Albert Jan van Eisden, Steenwijk, Nederland

• Anna Thérèsia Asaert (87)
• Albert Alberts (0), Emmen
• Barbara van Schaik (72), Loosduinen
• Antonie Johannes Kraaijmaat (75), Utrecht
• Aart Verkaik (75), Amsterdam
• Holtkamp (0), Delfzijl
• Christiaan Ooms (3), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, NEDERLAND
• Carrie Hameetman (5), Manchester, Passaic, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Barbara van Schaik (72), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antony Johannes Kraaijmaat (75), Utrecht

• 1890 » Karl Kirk, Danish gymnast († 1955)
• 1891 » Arnold Jackson, English runner, soldier, and lawyer († 1972)
• 1891 » Laura Vicuña, Chilean nun († 1904)
• 1892 » Raymond Bonney, American ice hockey player († 1964)
• 1893 » Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater († 1973)
• 1893 » Frithjof Andersen, Norwegian wrestler († 1975)
• 1894 » Carl Rudolf Florin, Swedish botanist († 1965)
• 1894 » Hans Hüttig, German SS officer († 1980)
• 1894 » Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation († 1956)
• 1895 » Mike O'Dowd, American boxer († 1957)

• 1882 » Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, (b. 1806)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1891 » Johann Hermann Bauer, (b. 1861)
• 1900 » Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (b. 1822)
• 1900 » Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (b. 1832)
• 1901 » Angelo Messedaglia, Italian social scientist and statistician (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (b. 1850)
• 1904 » Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen (b. 1830)
• 1904 » Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer (b. 1822)
• 1906 » Eastman Johnson, American painter (b. 1824)

• 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.
• April 6 » Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
• June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
• July 11 » The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
• August 27 » The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
• September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
• November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.

The temperature on April 5, 1893 was about 6.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.