About the day » Saturday May 22, 1993Calender converter

• Joseph David Freeman († 1993)
• Lisanne Haring, Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• Antoine Johannes Wolff de (90), Wageningen, Gld, Nederland
• Catharina Alida Kerssens (82), Zaandam, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Ada Hendrickson (76), Terrell, Kaufman, Texas
• Christiana Pieternella van Heumen (73), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Adrianus Oomes (60), Eindhoven, Gemeente Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes van Oost (93), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Alida Kerssens (82), Zaandam
• Christiaan (Chris) Nas (64), nijmegen, Nederland
• Catharina (Trien) Godijn (87), Alkmaar
• Clelan W. Breninger (66), Portland, Multnomah, OR

• 1987 » Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer
• 1987 » Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
• 1988 » Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress
• 1989 » Corey Dickerson, American baseball player
• 1990 » Wyatt Roy, Australian politician
• 1991 » Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer
• 1991 » Suho, South Korean singer and actor
• 1992 » Anna Baryshnikov, American actress
• 1994 » Florian Luger, Austrian male model
• 1998 » Samile Bermannelli, Brazilian fashion model

• 1988 » Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Steven De Groote, South African pianist and educator (b. 1953)
• 1990 » Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 1991 » Shripad Amrit Dange, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1899)
• 1991 » Stan Mortensen, English footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 1992 » Zellig Harris, American linguist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1997 » Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (b. 1906)
• 1998 » John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (b. 1926)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
• January 6 » Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
• January 14 » In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved.
• February 26 » World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand people.
• April 11 » Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
• August 28 » The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
• December 2 » Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.

The temperature on May 22, 1993 was between 4.4 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.