About the day » Monday August 2, 1993Calender converter

• Merel Versteeg
• Vera Victorine Blankevoort, Haarlem († 2016)
• Marijn Burssens, Dendermonde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen († 1993)

• Albert van der Molen (72), Heerenveen, Gem. Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Elisabeth Louise Houthuijsen (89), Purmerend
• Alje (Albert) Dekkinga (81), Kalamazoo, Michigan, V.S
• Cornelis Sprong (49), Breda, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Dora E. Miller (91), Elwood, Gosper, Nebraska, United States
• Alida Cornelia Maria Commandeur (84), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Andrew Emo Mayer (82), Petoskey, Emmet, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Clasina Petronella Meijer (74), Alkmaar
• Binne Jacobs ELLENS (82), Oostermeer (Tytsjerksteradiel) Friesland Netherlands
• Antonius Hendrikus de Munnik (86)

• 1986 » Mathieu Razanakolona, Canadian skier
• 1988 » Rob Kwiet, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Ima Bohush, Belarusian tennis player
• 1994 » Laremy Tunsil, American football player
• 1994 » Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player
• 1995 » Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
• 1996 » Keston Hiura, American baseball player
• 1996 » Simone Manuel, American swimmer
• 1999 » Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer

• 1988 » Joe Carcione, American activist and author (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Raymond Carver, American short story writer and poet (b. 1938)
• 1990 » Edwin Richfield, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 1990 » Norman Maclean, American short story writer and essayist (b. 1902)
• 1992 » Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
• 1996 » Michel Debré, French lawyer and politician, 150th Prime Minister of France (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
• 1996 » Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1917)
• 1997 » Fela Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1938)
• 1997 » William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1914)

• 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 18 » Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
• March 27 » Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
• 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.
• April 19 » The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
• June 1 » Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
• December 7 » Long Island Rail Road shooting: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.

The temperature on August 2, 1993 was between 14.3 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.