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 ).

* 1893 – Alexander of Greece ( d. 1920 )

* 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 )

* 1969 – Allen Dulles, American CIA director ( b. 1893 )

* William V. Allen, United States Senator from Nebraska, 1893 – 1901.

* January 29 – Allen Dulles, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( b. 1893 )

* Allen Welsh Dulles, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( 1893 – 1969 )

E. John B. Allen notes that the deities are portrayed in a manner that " give historical authority to this most important of Swedish ski journals, which began publication in 1893 ".

* Allen Welsh Dulles ( 1893 – 1969 ), former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, sibling of John Foster Dulles

* Reginald Allen ( Yorkshire cricketer ) ( William Reginald Allen, 1893 – 1950 ), English cricketer

* Henry Allen ( Mayor of Gloucester ) ( 1815 – 1893 ), mayor of Gloucester, England, 1873

* Frank D. Allen ( 1890 – 1893 )

In 1893 Allen moved to New York City, where he lived until his death.

* Side Lights, with Memoir by Grant Allen, and Introduction by W. T. Stead ; edited by J. F. Runciman, 1893.

Other principal works include: the Lincoln Tomb, a sepulchral monument to President Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois ; Ethan Allen ( 1876 ), National Statuary Hall, United States Capitol, Washington, DC ; a heroic marble, Mississippi – The Father of Waters, Minneapolis City Hall ; Triumph of Ceres, made for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893 ; and a large bust of Lincoln in the Hall of Inscriptions at the Vermont Statehouse.

* Allen Welsh Dulles ( 1893 – 1969 ), director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a member of the Warren Commission.

Its members were Bud Flanagan ( 1896 – 1968 ) and Chesney Allen ( 1893 – 1982 ).

Chesney Allen ( 5 April 1893 – 13 November 1982 ) was a popular English entertainer of the Second World War period.

In 1893, Allen moved to London where he met Lily Louisa Oram who he then wed in 1895.

Center School, a one-room schoolhouse in the Southwest Allen County School District, Fort Wayne, Indiana, was originally built in 1893 as the first public school in the district.

Allen Manvel ( September 26, 1837 – 1893 ) was the eleventh president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.