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 )

* Former Brighton & Hove Co-operative Supply Association Furniture Depository, 75 Holland Road, Hove, East Sussex ( 1893 ), Thomas Lainson, architect.

Former Governor William McKinley of Ohio was nominated on the first ballot with 661½ votes to 84½ to House Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine, 61½ votes for Pennsylvania Senator Matthew S. Quay, 58 votes for Governor Levi P. Morton of New York who was Vice President ( 1889 – 1893 ) under President Benjamin Harrison.

John Hamilton-Gordon, was a Liberal politician and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1886 and from 1905 to 1915 and as Governor General of Canada from 1893 to 1898.

* 1893 – Charles F. Hurley, 54th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1946 )

* January 21 – John Gould Moyer, American naval officer, 31st Governor of American Samoa ( b. 1893 )

* March 9 – Amasa Leland Stanford, Governor of California ( d. 1893 )

On January 27, 1893, Idaho Governor William J. McConnell signed an Act authorizing the establishment of the Lewiston State Normal School in Lewiston.

In March 2007, it was noted that the destruction of the Western Line railway base found below the floor of the Taipei Main Station and built in 1893 by Qing Empire-appointed Governor of Taiwan Province Liu Mingchuan was part of the government's call for desinicization through removal of the Chinese site.

* Eli C. D. Shortridge, third Governor of North Dakota from 1893 to 1895 ; born in Cabell County.

Also the home of the Southern Cherokee Nation in 1893 the Southern Cherokee was welcomed to Kentucky and recognized as an Indian tribe by Governor John Y.

* J. J. McAlester ( 1842 – 1920 ), U. S. Marshal for Indian Territory ( 1893 – 1897 ), Confederate Army captain, merchant in and founder of McAlester, Oklahoma as well as the developer of the coal mining industry in eastern Oklahoma, one of three members of the first Oklahoma Corporation Commission ( 1907 – 1911 ) and the second Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma ( 1911 – 1915 ).

Huey Pierce Long, Jr. ( August 30, 1893 September 10, 1935 ), nicknamed The Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928 – 1932 and as a U. S. Senator from 1932 to 1935.

* William Rush Merriam, who served as Governor of Minnesota from 1889 to 1893, was a summer resident of Forest Lake, and major property owner on the North Shore Drive area of Forest Lake.

* Clifford Ross Powell ( 1893 – 1973 ), politician who served as Acting Governor of New Jersey in 1935.

* Eli C. D. Shortridge, third Governor of North Dakota from 1893 to 1895 ; resident of Larimore.

After Ballance's death in 1893, the Governor David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow automatically asked Seddon to form a ministry.

He served as the 11th Governor of Minnesota from January 9, 1889 to January 4, 1893.

He served as the state's Lieutenant Governor, January 4, 1893 to January 31, 1895.

Jeremiah McLain Rusk ( June 17, 1830November 21, 1893 ) was the 15th Governor of the U. S. state of Wisconsin from 1882 to 1889 and the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1889 to 1893.

" In 1893, Lady Stanley, wife of Governor General the Lord Stanley of Preston, said " you will find the furniture in the rooms very old-fashioned & not very pretty ...

On 13 March 1893, the Governor accepted Griffith's resignation from Vice-President and Member of the Executive Council and Chief Secretary and Attorney General and appointed Griffith to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland where he served until 4 October 1903.

* Henry W. Lathrop ( 1893 ), The Life and Times of Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor, Chicago

* William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil ( 1893 – 1961 ), British politician and Governor General of Australia

* Raymond E. Baldwin ( 1893 – 1986 ), Stratford Town Court Prosecutor and Judge, United States Senator, and 72nd and 74th Governor of Connecticut.