* 1693 – Laurent Belissen, French composer ( d. 1762 )

* 1693 – Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway ( d. 1743 )

* 1693 – Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine.

* The Biblia Americana ( 1693 – 1728 )

Biblia Americana is incredibly large and Mather worked on it from 1693 – 1728, when he died.

According to Gay, Herbert had relatively few followers, and it was not until the 1680s that Herbert found a true successor in Charles Blount ( 1654 – 1693 ).

Notable late-classical deists include Peter Annet ( 1693 – 1769 ), Thomas Chubb ( 1679 – 1747 ), Thomas Morgan (?– 1743 ), and Conyers Middleton ( 1683 – 1750 ).

* 1693 – James Quin, English actor ( d. 1766 )

* 1645 – Johann Christoph Bach, German musician ( d. 1693 )

* 1619 – Giuseppe Felice Tosi, singer, organist and composer ( d. 1693 )

* 1693 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.

* 1642 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1693 )

* 1693 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian ( d. 1775 )

* 1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico.

* 1693 – Mount Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy.

* 1776 – Jeremiah Markland, English scholar ( b. 1693 )

* 1693 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen – France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.

* 1638 – Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1693 )

* 1693 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1768 )

John Harrison ( 24 March 1693 – 24 March 1776 ) was a self-educated English carpenter and later a clockmaker.

The French royal Order of Saint Louis ( 1693 – 1790 and 1814 – 1830 ), the Île Saint-Louis as well as a hospital in the 10th arrondissement of Paris also bear his name.

* October 28 – Anna, Empress of Russia ( b. 1693 )

* Anna of Russia ( 1693 – 1740 ), Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740

* Anna of Russia ( 1693 – 1740 ), Empress of Russia from 1730

* Empress Xiaoshengxian ( 孝聖憲皇后 ; Manchu: Hiyoošungga Enduringge Temgetulehe Hūwanghu ; 1693 – 1777 ) of the Niohuru clan, mother of Hongli ( the Qianlong Emperor ).

Moreover the married young German lady, later to become a brilliant and militarily aggressive Empress, was closely monitored in her behavior by the Imperial Grand Chancellor Aleksei Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin ( Алексе ́ й Петро ́ вич Бесту ́ жев-Рю ́ мин ) ( June 1, 1693 – April 21, 1768 ), Grand Chancellor of Russia, and closely watched over by Empress Elizabeth's cousin, Maria Choglokova, aged 24 but already with seven children.

On 3 August 1716, in Vienna, he married to Maria Anna, Countess of Oettingen-Spielberg ( 12 September 1693 – 15 April 1729 ), daughter of Francis Albert, Count of Oettingen-Spielberg.

Yonge was born in Colyton, Devon, in 1731 to Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet ( 1693 – 1751 ) and his second wife Ann Howard, one of several siblings: Anna, Amelia, Juliana, Sophia, Howard, Louisa, and Charlotte Yonge.

* Philip William August ( Neuburg November 19, 1668 – Reichstadt April 5, 1693 ), married in 1690 to Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg.

In Russia, donkey walk processions took place in different cities, but most importantly in Novgorod and, since 1558 until 1693, in Moscow.

Count Alexey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin () ( 1 June 1693 – 21 April 1768 ), Grand Chancellor of Russia, was one of the most influential and successful European diplomats of the 18th century.

Engelbert Kaempfer ( September 16, 1651 – November 2, 1716 ), a German naturalist and physician is known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, South-East Asia, and Japan between 1683 and 1693.

* 1693 Kalmyks attack Nogais, as agents of Russia

In 1693 the company recovered Fort Albany ; d ' Iberville captured York Factory in 1694, but the company recovered it the next year.

* 1627 – Anne Marie Louise d ' Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer and princess ( d. 1693 )

* 1641 – Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath ( d. 1693 )

* 1693 – John Harrison, British clockmaker ( d. 1776 )

* 1603 – Simon Bradstreet, British colonial magistrate ( d. 1693 )

* 1634 – Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer ( d. 1693 )

* 1624 – Paul Pellisson, French writer ( d. 1693 )

* 1693 – Charles Radclyffe, English politician ( d. 1746 )

* October 30 – Paul Pellisson, French author ( d. 1693 )

* January 2 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1693 )

* April 13 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer ( d. 1693 )

* August – Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier ( d. 1693 )

* January 30 – William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1693 )

** Willem Kalf, Dutch painter ( d. 1693 )