* 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 )

* 1693 – Empress Anna of Russia ( d. 1740 )

* 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.

John Locke's work Some Thoughts Concerning Education was written in 1693 and still reflects traditional education priorities in the Western world.

* 1776 – John Harrison, English clockmaker ( b. 1693 )

He was not the first writer to criticise the system, with John Locke writing a formal memorandum to the MP Edward Clarke in 1693 while the Licensing Act was being renewed, complaining that the existing system restricted the free exchange of ideas and education while providing an unfair monopoly for Company members.

* Basilica of St. John the Evangelist, built by the Normans and destroyed in 1693.

* September 7 – John Hickman, convicted forger ( b. 1693 )

* Eaden, John, The Memoirs of Père Labat, 1693 – 1705, Frank Cass, 1970.

* John Dryden translated Ovid's poem in 1693

* Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1693 – 1768 ), a nephew of John Holles, 1st Duke, died without male issue, and his father's Laughton Barony and Baronetcy, his Earldom and his first Dukedom went extinct

According to Whitelaw, prior to 1693 the Accomack County courthouse shifted from Onancock to the tavern of John Cole at Matomkin.

In 1693, he addressed a poem to John Dryden, and his first major work, a book of the lives of English poets, was published in 1694.

John Slezer | Slezer's Edinburgh Castle c. 1693 depicting the Scottish Union Flag. Despite the drawings described in this letter as showing drafts of the two new patterns, together with any royal response to the complaint which may have accompanied them, having been lost in a fire, other evidence exists, at least on paper, of a Scottish variant whereby the Scottish cross appears uppermost.

On land, evidence suggesting use of this flag appears in the depiction of Edinburgh Castle by John Slezer, in his series of engravings entitled Theatrum Scotiae, c. 1693.

* John Gilbert ( archbishop of York ) ( 1693 – 1761 ), Archbishop of York

Stirling Castle, drawn by John Slezer in 1693, and showing James IV's now-demolished Forework

The overall design, as drawn by John Slezer in 1693, shows French influence, and has parallels with the forework erected at Linlithgow Palace.

Sir John Wildman ( c. 1621 – 2 June 1693 ) was an English politician and soldier.

* Sir John Trenchard: 23 March 1693 – 2 March 1694

It was the philosopher John Locke who first seems to have advocated targeting children as a special audience in Some Thoughts Concerning Education ( 1693 ).

As the settlement expanded its name changed: briefly known as " Bankside " in 1693, officially named Green's Farm in 1732 in honor of Bankside Farmer John Green and in 1835 incorporated as the Town of Westport.

* John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll ( 1693 – 1770 ) ( eldest son of Hon.

Unshrouded skeleton on Diana Warburton's tomb ( dated 1693 ) in St John the Baptist's Church, Chester | St John's Church, Chester

Thomas Pelham was born in London on 21 July 1693 the eldest son of Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham, by his second wife, the former Lady Grace Holles, younger sister of the John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

* John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll ( 1693 – 1770 ), Scottish Whig politician