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 )

Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, fourth son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a Liberal politician and was created Baron Stanmore in 1893 ( see this title for more information on him and this branch of the family ).

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.

In 1893, the year that Arthur Balfour was president of the SPR the author Arthur Conan Doyle joined the society.

* July 17 – Arthur Hornblow, Jr., American film producer ( b. 1893 )

Arthur Kennelly was the first to represent impedance with complex numbers in 1893.

On 11 March 1893, after experiencing painful spasms for two hours, she died with Arthur holding her hand, of an unknown disease, perhaps tuberculosis, although the symptoms fit a heart attack also.

Professor Moriarty, the archenemy of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes, was introduced in 1893.

The 1893 hurricane became known as the Flagg Flood because the Flagg families that lived in houses on Magnolia Beach ( Dr. Arthur, his wife Georgeanne, his son Arthur Jr., and his wife and 6 children ) were swept away in the storm surge.

* A fictionalised version of Arthur Balfour ( identified as " Mr. Balfour ") appears as British Prime Minister in the science fiction romance The Angel of the Revolution by George Griffith, published in 1893 ( when Balfour was still in opposition ) but set in an imagined near future of 1903-1905.

The play's Broadway première on 5 February 1893 at Palmer's Theatre was also the first Broadway performance for stage and screen actress Julia Arthur, who played Lady Windermere.

*** Catherine Charlotte Raban ( Chittagong, Bengal, 12 June 1870-1954 ), married at Axebridge, Somerset, in 1893 to Arthur Waugh ( 1866-1943 ) and had two sons, Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh

By 1893, Smith had moved to Brooklyn, where, at the age of 15, she enrolled at the relatively new Pratt Institute and studied art under the noted artist teacher Arthur Wesley Dow.

* Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury ( 1893 – 1972 )

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 ).

* Prothero, R. E. & Bradley, G. G. ( 1893 ) The Life and Correspondence of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

Beardsley's first commission was Le Morte d ' Arthur by Thomas Malory ( 1893 ), which he illustrated for the publishing house J. M. Dent and Company.

German was by then in high demand to write music for plays, and his commissions included Henry Arthur Jones's The Tempter in 1893, Johnston Forbes-Robertson's Romeo and Juliet at the Lyceum in 1895, Herbert Beerbohm Tree's productions of As You Like It ( 1896 ) and Much Ado about Nothing ( 1898 ), and Anthony Hope's English Nell ( later known as Nell Gwynn ) in 1900, starring Marie Tempest.

She became successful after starring in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, in 1893, at St. James's Theatre where she also appeared in 1894 in The Masqueraders.

Raymond Arthur Dart ( 4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988 ) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil ever found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominid closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the province Northwest.

* She has a significant role in ' The Refugees ' ( 1893 ) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle where her fall from favour with Louis XIV is dramatically depicted