About the day » Sunday May 21, 1893Calender converter

• Adriaantje Klara Antje Maria de Jonge, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1967)
• Anna Catharina Mennen, Viersen (D)
• Adelina Maria Vercauteren, Moerbeke-Waas
• Alphonsus Maria Bernadus Johannes Geerdinck, Enschede († 1942)
• Anna Maria Tielen, Roosendaal en Nispen
• Adriaantje Klara Antje Maria de JONGE Idr, Rotterdam, NL-ZH († 1967)
• Alexander Otto Schut, Lochem
• Alexander Otto Schut, Lochem
• Aleida Cornelia Klapwijk, Krimpen aan de Lek, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje Klara Antje Maria de Jonge, rotterdam (zuid holland)

• * Anna Elizabeth Merkx (52), Ammerzoden
• Anna Elisabeth Merkx (52), Ammerzoden
• Bartholomeus Binnes Wietzema (44), Surhuisterveen
• Abraham Saarloos (54), haarlemmermeer (noord holland)
• Anna Angela Gerdes (40), Segberg, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Aaltje Jans HULSEBOS (79), Kloosterveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antje Honderdors (25), Landsmeer
• Bartholomeus Wietzema (44), Surhuisterveen
• Bartholomeus Binnes Wietzema (44), Surhuisterveen, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aagje Van Der Meer (32), Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Netherlands

• 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)

• 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.
• March 1 » Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
• July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
• August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
• August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
• 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.

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