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• Adriaantje Trijntje van Es, Haarlemmermeer, North Holland, Netherlands († 1968)
• Ada Fern McKinley (Messer), guernsey County, Ohio († 1960)
• Alice HOPE, Green Wall, Lewes, Sussex († 1982)
• Adriana Jacoba LANGENBERG, Amsterdam (N-H) († 1980)
• Adriana Maria Kuijsters, Waspik († 1893)
• Aagje Renzes Haaksma, Lioessens, Friesland, Nederland († 1977)
• Aaltje van Essen
• Aafje [Aaf van Kip van de Grutter] Tol, Volendam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1938)
• de Visser, Axel
• Adriaan Wielemaker, Middelburg, Nederland († 1974)

• Antonie Dekkers (53), Bergeyk, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Bart Den Haak (68), Ameide, Gemeente Zederik, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Nieuwveld, Gouda
• Adriana van Kuringen (73), Helvoirt, NL
• Anna Maria Künz (73), Assmannshausen, Hessen, Deutschland
• Anna Adriana Goedschalk (0), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arend Orsel (44), Havelte, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Adam Vrijens (22), Kanne, Provincie Limburg, België
• Anne Anton Theodoor de Man (72), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland NL
• Anton Johan van den Dungen Gronovius (18), Batavia

• 1888 » Irving Berlin, Belarusian-American pianist and composer († 1989)
• 1888 » Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral († 1945)
• 1889 » Paul Nash, British painter († 1946)
• 1890 » Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete († 1984)
• 1890 » Willie Applegarth, English-American sprinter († 1958)
• 1894 » Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer († 1991)
• 1895 » Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player († 1978)
• 1895 » William Grant Still, American composer and conductor († 1978)
• 1896 » Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer and academic († 1955)
• 1897 » Robert E. Gross, American businessman († 1961)

• 1849 » Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman (b. 1777)
• 1882 » Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1816)
• 1889 » John Cadbury, English businessman and philanthropist, founded the Cadbury Company (b. 1801)
• 1908 » Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
• 1918 » George Elmslie, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)
• 1920 » James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1878)
• 1920 » William Dean Howells, American novelist, literary critic, and playwright (b. 1837)
• 1927 » Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1929 » Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)

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.
• June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
• 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.
• 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 May 11, 1893 was about 15.4 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%.