About the day » Sunday May 9, 1993Calender converter

• Renée Meessen, Kerkrade († 1994)

• Agnes Maria Hofstede (80), Apeldoorn
• Adriana Jelgersma (92), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alberdina Theodora Juffermans (87), 's-Gravenhage
• Adrianus Koek (87), Ouddorp
• Betsie Cox (74)
• Anna Richter (88), Kerkrade (L
• Barendina Johanna Duinsbergen (80), Maarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bruno Martin Angerman (76), Hamilton County, TX
• B. J. Duinsbergen (80), Amersfoort
• Aaltje Nijenhuis (103)

• 1985 » Jake Long, American football player
• 1987 » Kevin Gameiro, French footballer
• 1987 » Scott Bolton, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 » Vitaliy Pushkar, Ukrainian race car driver
• 1988 » J. R. Fitzpatrick, Canadian race car driver
• 1989 » Ellen White, English footballer
• 1991 » Majlinda Kelmendi, Kosovar judoka
• 1992 » Dan Burn, English footballer
• 1996 » Grace Reid, Scottish diver
• 1996 » Saron Läänmäe, Estonian footballer

• 1983 » Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer (b. 1891)
• 1985 » Edmond O'Brien, American actor and director (b. 1915)
• 1986 » Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1914)
• 1987 » Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Penelope Gilliatt, English novelist, short story writer, and critic (b. 1932)
• 1994 » Elias Motsoaledi, South African activist (b. 1924)
• 1997 » Marco Ferreri, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 1997 » Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Alice Faye, American actress and singer (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Talat Mahmood, Indian singer and actor (b. 1924)

• 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 13 » Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
• March 11 » Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
• August 7 » Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• September 22 » A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
• October 4 » Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
• December 2 » Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

The temperature on May 9, 1993 was between 8.8 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 9.9 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.