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• Aartje Schouten, Vierhouten († 1952)
• Aaltje Edel, Monnickendam († 1971)
• 'n Levenloos geboren zoon van van der Hoorn, Ter Aar (Langeraar) († 1893)
• Adriana Gerritje Flach, Ridderkerk († 1963)
• Albert Mooij, Weststellingwerf, Noordwolde († 1896)
• Abraham van den Bergh, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1949)
• Aaltien Philips, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltien Geerts Philips, Assen
• Alberta Meiboom, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1893)
• Adolf Henri Alexander Fromberg, Apeldoorn

• "Karl" Hans August Werner von Hammerstein-Gesmold (63), Hannover, Allemagne
• Andries Vennik (1), Leiden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Auktje de Haan (25), De Wilp gem. Marum
• Adriana van den Broek (1), Sint Michielsgestel
• Barbora Sanders (70), Angeren
• Aukje KIEWIET (9), Ooststellingwerf Friesland Netherlands
• Albert Hendrik Goldman (60), Batavia
• * Johannes Rutjens (55), Roermond
• AREND REININK (0), VROOMSHOOP
• Antonius Lodewijk Moors (43), Molenbeersel (B)

• 1885 » Gianni Vella, Maltese artist († 1977)
• 1888 » Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot († 1918)
• 1888 » Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector († 1964)
• 1892 » Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire († 1989)
• 1893 » William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author († 1947)
• 1895 » Frank Foss, American pole vaulter († 1989)
• 1895 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher († 1961)
• 1895 » Richard Barthelmess, American actor († 1963)
• 1896 » Richard Day, Canadian-American art director and set decorator († 1972)
• 1900 » Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress († 1992)

• 1861 » Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (b. 1805)
• 1864 » John Sedgwick, American general and educator (b. 1813)
• 1889 » William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)

• 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 6 » The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
• January 17 » Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
• July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
• July 11 » A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
• 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.
• November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.

The temperature on May 9, 1893 was about 15.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%.