About the day » Sunday May 21, 1893Calender converter

• Albertje Woudenberg, Nijkerk († 1933)
• Anna Catharina Hulswit, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1932)
• Adriaantje Klara Antje Maria de Jonge, rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Alphonsus Maria Bernadus Johannes Geerdinck, Enschede († 1942)
• Angelina Maria De Moor, Austruweel, Provincie Antwerpen
• Angela Celina Everaert, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Alice Elizabeth Hagon, Stoke Newington, London, England († 1975)
• Aleidia Cornelia Klapwijk, Krimpen aan de Lek
• Aalbertje Woudenberg, Veen
• Alexander Otto Schut, Lochem

• Aaltje Hulsebosch (79), Kloosterveen
• Agnes Maria Van Deenen (37), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Bartholomeus Binnes Wietzema (44), Surhuisterveen
• Adrianus Brands (36), Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Anna Elizabeth Merkx (52), Ammerzoden
• Arend Arie te Winkel (0), Arnhem, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonie Cornelis Houtappels (17), Bergeyk, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Arend Arie te Winkel (0), Arnhem
• Barend Mozes Slagter (69), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje (Jans) Hulsebosch (79), Kloosterveen (Assen)

• 1885 » Princess Sophie of Albania, (Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg) († 1936)
• 1893 » Arthur Carr, English cricketer († 1963)
• 1893 » Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant († 1969)
• 1895 » Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas († 1970)
• 1898 » Armand Hammer, American physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum († 1990)
• 1898 » Carl Johnson, American long jumper († 1932)
• 1898 » Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge († 1967)
• 1898 » John McLaughlin, American painter and translator († 1976)
• 1901 » Horace Heidt, American pianist, bandleader, and radio host († 1986)
• 1901 » Regina M. Anderson, Multiracial playwright and librarian († 1993)

• 1862 » John Drew, Irish-American actor and manager (b. 1827)
• 1879 » Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
• 1894 » Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 » August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
• 1895 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)

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.
• January 13 » The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
• January 13 » U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USSBoston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
• July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
• 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.
• December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

The temperature on May 21, 1893 was about 18.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.