About the day » Wednesday May 17, 1893Calender converter

• Albert van der Veen, Avereest († 1971)
• Visser († 1946)
• "Marie" Louise Julienne Josephine Ghislaine de Robiano, Bruxelles († 1980)
• Roelofje Dunning, Ruinen
• Adriana Dam, Oud-en Nieuw Gastel († 1972)
• Adolphe de Rechteren-Limpourg († 1952)
• Alida Groen, Charlois (Rotterdam) († 1926)
• Adriana Dam, Oud en Nieuw Gastel,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1972)
• Adolf Frederik Graaf van Rechteren-Limpurg-Speckfeld, 's Gravenhage († 1952)
• Albert Geert Engels, Stadskanaal, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1894)

• Anna van Rijn (48), Hof van Delft
• Antje Zuijdam (50), Alphen en Rietveld, Alphen aan de Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adelia Victoria Fenstermacher (35), Waynesfield, Auglaize Co, Ohio
• Anna Elisabeth Hubertina Bremmers (74), Maasniel, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna VERMUNT (60), Etten-Leur,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Adriana Schlot (83), Rheden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert SIKKEMA (0), Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Pieters Meulenaar (71)
• Anna van Rijn (48), Hof van Delft
• * Anna Maria Kuijpers (50), Beek en Donk

• 1888 » Tich Freeman, English cricketer († 1965)
• 1889 » Alfonso Reyes, Mexican author († 1959)
• 1889 » Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer († 1946)
• 1891 » Napoleon Zervas, Greek general and politician († 1957)
• 1893 » Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor and entrepreneur († 1961)
• 1895 » Reinhold Saulmann, Estonian sprinter and bandy player († 1936)
• 1895 » Saul Adler, Belarusian-English captain and parasitologist († 1966)
• 1897 » Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1898 » A. J. Casson, Canadian painter († 1992)
• 1899 » Carmen de Icaza, Spanish writer († 1979)

• 1868 » Kondō Isami, Japanese commander (b. 1834)
• 1875 » John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States, Confederate States general (b. 1821)
• 1879 » Asa Packer, American businessman, founded Lehigh University (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Ziya Pasha, Greek author and translator (b. 1826)
• 1886 » John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded the Deere & Company (b. 1804)
• 1888 » Giacomo Zanella, Italian priest and poet (b. 1820)
• 1911 » Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German-American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (b. 1836)
• 1916 » Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Russian physicist and seismologist (b. 1862)
• 1917 » Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (b. 1829)
• 1917 » Clara Ayres, American nurse (b. 1880)

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.
• April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
• June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
• October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
• 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 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 May 17, 1893 was about 19.7 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%.