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 – 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 Maillol opened a tapestry workshop in Banyuls, producing works whose high technical and aesthetic quality gained him recognition for renewing this art form in France.

* Ricard, Les grands eveques de l ' eglise de France au XIXe siècle ( Lille, 1893 )

The Kerguelen Islands, along with the islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul, and the Crozet archipelago were officially annexed by France in 1893, and were included as possessions in the French constitution in 1924 ( in addition to that portion of Antarctica claimed by France and known as Adélie Land ; as with all Antarctic territorial claims, France's possession on the continent is held in abeyance until a new international treaty is ratified that defines each claimant's rights and obligations ).

Following its occupation of Vietnam, France absorbed Laos into French Indochina via treaties with Siam in 1893 and 1904.

Remey trained as an architect at Cornell University ( 1893 – 1896 ), and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France ( 1896 – 1903 ) where he first learned of the Bahá ' í Faith.

In 1893 Gauguin returned to France, where he painted Mahana No Atua (" Day of the God "; 1894 ) which depicted Tahitian religion, even though the idol in the center, Hina, is derived more from Indian and Southeast Asian archetypes.

* The Stanley Weyman novel, A Gentleman of France ( 1893 ) involves the events of Henry's reconciliation with the Huguenots and struggle against the Catholic League, leading to his assassination.

Owen, who was born in 1893, was serving as the commander of a rifle company when he was killed in action on 4 November 1918 during the crossing of the Sambre-Oise Canal in France, just one week before the Armistice.

* Ludovicus M. M. Van Iersel ( 1893 – 1987 ), recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in France during World War I.

Signac's 1893 painting, In the Time of Harmony was originally titled In the Time of Anarchy but political repression targeting the anarchists in France at this time forced him to change it before the work could be accepted by a gallery.

Ravaisson's chief philosophical works are: " Les Fragments philosophiques de Hamilton " ( in the Revue des Deux Mondes, November, 1840 ); Rapport sur le stoicisme ( 1851 ); La Philosophie en France au dix-neuvième siècle ( 1868 ; 3rd ed, 1889 ); Morale et métaphysique ( 1893 ).

After the Exposition the building was shipped to Fort de France and reassembled there, the work being completed by 1893.

Marshal Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de Mac-Mahon, 1st Duke of Magenta (; 13 July 1808 – 17 October 1893 ), was a French general and politician with the distinction Marshal of France.

He died at Remonchamps, Ardennes, France on 31 August 1893, of influenza, and was buried at Kensal Green, London.

* Freya Stark ( January 31, 1893, Paris, France – May 9, 1993 ) – not only one of the first Western women to travel through the Arabian deserts ( Hadhramaut ); she often traveled solo into areas where few Europeans, let alone women, had ever been.

His early works included two novels, but the best examples of his prose are perhaps to be found in his volumes of short stories, Pastorals of France ( 1877 ), Renunciations ( 1893 ), Orgeas and Miradou ( 1896 ), reprinted in 1905 as A Dream of Provence.

A bomb was detonated in the Chamber of Deputies of France in 1893, causing injuries but no deaths.

France was the first country to introduce the licence plate with the passage of the Paris Police Ordinance on August 14, 1893, followed by Germany in 1896.

In early 1893 in Bordeaux, France, mother and son boarded the ship SS Don Pedro and sailed to Buenos Aires, arriving on 11 March 1893.

John Jean Goldkette ( 18 March 1893 – March 24, 1962 ) was a jazz pianist and bandleader born in France.

As High Commissioner, Charles Tupper helped negotiate an agreement with France in 1893 but it was countersigned by the British ambassador as the Queen's official representative to France.