About the day » Thursday August 24, 1893Calender converter

• Alice Katherine Rafferty, Butte Silver, Montana, Verenigde Staten († 1981)
• aaltje van urk, Urk († 1905)
• Aegidius Josephus van Loo, Wijlre, Limburg, Nederland († 1947)
• Amalia Mueller
• Addison Kidder
• Angele Alice SEGHERS, Bredene,8450,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1976)
• Nieboer, Ten Boer (Thesinge) († 1893)
• Andriesje Koehoren, Leek,, Groningen, Nederland († 1970)
• Aloisius Crombeen, Graauw en Langendam, Zeeland, Nederland († 1907)
• Abraham Joseph AGSTERIBBE, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1894)

• Aartje Molendijk (68), IJsselmonde, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Catharina Diderika Margritha de STERKE (66), Dordrecht
• Arie van der Grijn (57), Ameide
• Adrianus Johannes van Eck (79), Rotterdam
• Berendina Antonia Wenting (62), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aloisius Kok (0), Gendringen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Amedé Joseph FURNIER (0), Deerlijk
• Aartje Meulendijk (69), IJsselmonde
• Baukje Jans van der Bij (18), Surhuisterveen, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Catharina Joanna Alma- (0), Groningen, Nederland

• 1887 » Harry Hooper, American baseball player († 1974)
• 1888 » Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company († 1942)
• 1890 » Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, actor, and surfer († 1968)
• 1890 » Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist († 1979)
• 1893 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1978)
• 1895 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal († 1970)
• 1897 » Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher († 1954)
• 1898 » Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic († 1989)
• 1899 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1899 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator († 1986)

• 1841 » Theodore Hook, English civil servant and composer (b. 1788)
• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)

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.
• February 1 » Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
• June 22 » The Royal Navy battleship HMSCamperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMSVictoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
• July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
• 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.
• September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
• December 4 » First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.

The temperature on August 24, 1893 was about 20.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.