About the day » Tuesday August 8, 1893Calender converter

• Alberdina Booij, Genemuiden, Overijssel, Nederland († 1964)
• Aalbertje Verhagen, Hellevoetsluis,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1982)
• Adrianus Maasdam, Klaaswaal († 1954)
• Albert Baccarne, Langemark († 1965)
• Albert Johan Holthuizen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1961)
• Aaltje Besselsen, Harderwijk († 1898)
• Adriana van der Giessen, strijen (zuid holland) († 1893)
• Adriana Kleiweg, Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• Aagje Stigter, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Hessels, Dongen

• Aaltje van Heukelom (61), Ede zie Gelderland-Ede
• Aart Jans Bakker (82), Tip (Zuidwolde)
• Agatha van de Velde (70), Zierikzee
• Aaltje van HEUKELOM (60), Ede (Gelderland, The Netherlands)
• Agatha van de Velde (71), Zierikzee (Zeeland) NL
• Barbara Schroeders (37), Munsterbilzen
• Adrianus Johannes STRIJP (37), Rotterdam (NL)
• Antonie van de Kamp (0), Zeist
• Bernardus Van den Broeck (75), Oudegem,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Amelia Bogaert (57), Esen

• 1882 » Ladislas Starevich, Russian-French animator, screenwriter, and cinematographer († 1965)
• 1884 » Sara Teasdale, American poet and educator († 1933)
• 1889 » Hans Egede Budtz, Danish actor († 1968)
• 1889 » Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer († 1977)
• 1891 » Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer († 1952)
• 1896 » Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic († 1953)
• 1898 » Marguerite Bise, French chef († 1965)
• 1901 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1902 » Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1904 » Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver († 1948)

• 1879 » Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1797)
• 1887 » Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1808)
• 1897 » Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 » Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 » James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)
• 1909 » Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 » William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)
• 1920 » Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (b. 1855)
• 1921 » Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1861)

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.
• February 28 » The USSIndiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
• June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
• September 19 » In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
• October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
• November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.

The temperature on August 8, 1893 was about 20.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.