Fridtjof Nansen won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86 ° 14 ′ during his Nansen's Fram expedition | North Pole expedition of 1893 – 96.

* 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.

* 1893 – Robert Harron, American actor ( d. 1920 )

* 1894 – Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D. C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.

* 1893 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister ( d. 1946 )

* 1893 – Wright Patman, American politician ( d. 1976 )

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

* 1818 – Lucy Stone, American activist ( d. 1893 )

Abner Doubleday ( June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893 ) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.

* 1820 – John Tyndall, British physicist ( d. 1893 )

* 1893 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.

In 1853, he married Jane Sym ( 1825 – 1893 ).

* 1808 – Hamilton Fish, American politician ( d. 1893 )

* 1821 – Ford Madox Brown, English painter ( d. 1893 )

* 1893 – Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian novelist ( d. 1968 )

* 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.

* 1893 – Francis Dvornik, Czech historian ( d. 1975 )

* 1893 – Ibadan area became a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.

* 1893 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer ( d. 1950 )

* 1893 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist ( d. 1962 )

* Alexander of Bulgaria ( 1857 – 1893 ), first prince of Bulgaria

* Alexander of Bulgaria ( 1857 – 1893 ), Prince of Bulgaria

* 1805 – Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman ( d. 1893 )

* 1893 – Huey Long, American politician ( d. 1935 )

In 1893, King Alexander, aged sixteen, in a first coup d ' état proclaimed himself of full age, dismissed the regents and their government, and took the royal authority into his own hands.

Aberdeen's second son was General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ; his third son was the Reverend Douglas Hamilton-Gordon ; and his youngest son Arthur Gordon was created Baron Stanmore in 1893.

Empress Maria Fyodorovna and her husband Alexander III of Russia | Emperor Alexander III vacationing in Copenhagen in 1893

* 1893 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian director ( d. 1956 )

* January 24 – Sir Alexander Korda, Hungarian-born film director ( b. 1893 )

* October 25 – Alexander of Greece, Greek king ( b. 1893 )

* April 5 – Alexander of Battenberg, first Prince of Bulgaria ( d. 1893 )

# Robert Alexander Lamberton ( 1880 – 1893 ), lawyer

Alexander Joseph, Prince of Bulgaria GCB ( 5 April 1857 – 23 October 1893 ), known as Alexander of Battenberg, was the first prince ( knyaz ) of modern Bulgaria, reigning from 29 April 1879 to 7 September 1886.

In 1893, however, he responded to a request from actor-manager George Alexander for a serious play for the opening of his renovated St. James's Theatre, and James wrote a long drama, Guy Domville, which Alexander produced.

The scientific theory of biogeography grows out of the work of Alexander von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 ), Hewett Cottrell Watson ( 1804 – 1881 ), Alphonse de Candolle ( 1806 – 1893 ), Alfred Russel Wallace ( 1823 – 1913 ), Philip Lutley Sclater ( 1829 – 1913 ) and other biologists and explorers.

Blass is chiefly known for his works in connection with the study of Greek oratory: Die griechische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus ( 1865 ); Die attische Beredsamkeit ( 1868 – 1880 ; 2nd ed., 1887 – 1898 ), his greatest work ; editions for the Teubner series of Andocides ( 1880 ), Antiphon ( 1881 ), Hypereides ( 1881, 1894 ), Demosthenes ( Dindorf's ed., 1885 ), Isocrates ( 1886 ), Dinarchus ( 1888 ), Demosthenes ( Rehdantz ed., 1893 ), Aeschines ( 1896 ), Lycurgus, Leocrates ( 1902 ); Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa ( 1901 ); Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa ( 1905 ).

A popular winter retreat for hunting, fishing and boating, The Alexander House would be renamed The Lake House in 1893.

Alexander (, Aléxandros, Vasiléfs ton Ellínon ; 1 August 1893 – 25 October 1920 ) was King of Greece from 10 June 1917 until his death.

Alexander was born on 1 August 1893 ( 20 July in the Julian calendar ), the second son of Crown Prince Constantine of Greece ( 1868 – 1923 ) and his wife Princess Sophia of Prussia ( 1870 – 1932 ).

Sir Alexander Korda ( 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956 ) was a Hungarian-born British film producer and director.

* Alexander William Campbell ( general ) ( 1828 – 1893 ), American Civil War Confederate general

* Alexander W. Campbell ( 1828 – 1893 ), military officer in the Confederate States Army

Within psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, Reich's Character Analysis contributed to the development of what is now known as ego psychology, gave rise to body psychotherapy, and helped to shape the Gestalt therapy of Fritz Perls ( 1893 – 1970 ), the bioenergetic analysis of Reich's student, Alexander Lowen ( 1910 – 2008 ), and the primal therapy of Arthur Janov ( b. 1924 ).