About the day » Friday June 23, 1893Calender converter

• Alphonsus Goormans, Broechem († 1918)
• Alphonsus Maria van den Heuvel, Veghel († 1970)
• Goot, van der, Nijkerk Gld. NL († 1893)
• Adriana Helena van der Schalie, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland (NLD) († 1894)
• Albertus Alberts, Vriezenveen († 1937)
• Adriana de Kok, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1925)
• Anna Visser, Pipestone County, Minnesota († 1951)
• Abele Ernstes Huisman, Terwispel, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Albertus Goot, van der, Nijkerk Gld. NL († 1894)
• Anna Braak, Egmond Binnen, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Anne Hanses Hoekstra (0), Mildam, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anne Hoekstra (0), Mildam, Friesland, Nederland
• Arend Jan van de Kerk (0), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Sjoukes Hemminga (74), Opsterland
• Aalberta Blok (5), Alphen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Berenschot (65), Arnhem,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius Josephus van de Laar (11), Ammerzoden
• Antonia Roelofs van den Bremen (63), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonie Smit (24), Hekendorp, Nederland
• Anna de Wit (75), 's-Gravenzande

• 1884 » Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and politician († 1979)
• 1888 » Bronson M. Cutting, American publisher and politician († 1935)
• 1889 » Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet and author († 1966)
• 1889 » Verena Holmes, English engineer († 1964)
• 1894 » Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist († 1956)
• 1894 » Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom († 1972)
• 1894 » Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand military leader, lawyer and Chief Justice († 1972)
• 1899 » Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French race car driver and sports car manufacturer († 1979)
• 1900 » Blanche Noyes, American aviator, winner of the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race († 1981)
• 1901 » Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar († 1962)

• 1836 » James Mill, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1773)
• 1848 » Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1776)
• 1856 » Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1806)
• 1881 » Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist and academic (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Samuel Newitt Wood, American lawyer and politician (b. 1825)
• 1891 » Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (b. 1817)
• 1893 » William Fox, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812)
• 1914 » Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1945 » Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1923)

• 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 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
• May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
• July 22 » Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
• September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
• October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.

The temperature on June 23, 1893 was about 16.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.