About the day » Saturday August 12, 1893Calender converter

• Andries Kooij, Steenwijkerwold († 1965)
• Cornelis Gerardus Bogers, Steenbergen († 1970)
• Albertje Cats, Oostellingwerf
• Alberdinus Gerardus van Bodegraven, Vinkeveen en Waverveen († 1973)
• Albertina Goddrie, Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1962)
• * Johannes van Schaik, Mijdrecht († 1960)
• Anna Gerritdina Smit, Amsterdam († 1959)
• Adriana Paula Bourgoignie, Oostende-St Jozef († 1897)
• Allegonda Maria van Vorsselen, Utrecht († 1922)
• Anna Gerritdina Smit, Amsterdam Nhl. NL († 1959)

• Anna Cornelia Swolfs (0), Hoogstraten, België
• Arthur George Henry Wellesley (42)
• Arent Bronsema (0), Spijk
• Arent Bronsema (0), Spijk (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Adriana Wolfs (0), Vlijmen
• Arnoldus Anthonie COOMANS (0), Surabaja (IND)
• Bergetta Margareta Labee (82), Ameide
• Buford Barber (1)
• Antoon Teunissen (74), Wanroij, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Bas (60), Oude Niedorp, Hollands Kroon, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1885 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic († 1959)
• 1885 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor († 1959)
• 1885 » Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist († 1952)
• 1887 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1889 » Zerna Sharp, American author and educator († 1981)
• 1891 » C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and academic († 1953)
• 1891 » John McDermott, American golfer († 1971)
• 1892 » Alfred Lunt, American actor and director († 1977)
• 1897 » Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer († 1981)
• 1899 » Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer († 1963)

• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)

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 6 » The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
• February 1 » Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
• April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
• August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
• November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
• December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

The temperature on August 12, 1893 was about 19.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.