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 – 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 )

* John Francis Young ( 1893 – 1929 ), Canadian soldier

* 1893 – Francis Ouimet, American golfer and businessman ( d. 1967 )

* 1823 – Francis Parkman, American historian ( d. 1893 )

** Francis Ouimet, American professional golfer ( b. 1893 )

In 1893, his eldest son, Francis, Viscount Drumlanrig, was created Baron Kelhead in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, thus giving the son an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

James Francis " Jimmy " Durante ( February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980 ) was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor.

Notable residents included poet and women's-rights activist Sarah Tittle ( Barrett ) Bolton ( 1814 – 1893 ), and Indianapolis financier Francis McClintock Churchman ( 1833 – 1891 ).

In 1893, Missouri's General Assembly created the Saint Francis Levee District to alleviate that part of the Saint Francis basin lying within the counties of Dunklin, New Madrid, and Pemiscot.

* Sir Francis Simon ( 1893 – 1956 ), physicist

* Francis Jeffrey Cockburn ( Edinburgh, Midlothian, 8 January 1825-Brentford, London, 10 July 1893 ), a Judge in India and with the Bengal Civil Service, and wife ( Calcutta or Westbury, Tasmania, 25 January 1855 ) Elizabeth Anne ( Eliza Ann ) Pitcairn ( Hobart, Tasmania, 23 September 1831, bap.

) The original painting was by Francis Barraud in 1893, as a memorial to his deceased brother, a London photographer, who willed him his estate including his DC-powered Edison-Bell cylinder Phonograph with a case of cylinders — some home-recorded — and his dog Nipper.

In 1847 he married a sister of the artist James McNeill Whistler ; and his elder son, Francis Seymour Haden ( b. 1850 ), had a distinguished career as a member of the government in Natal Colony from 1881 to 1893, being made a C. M. G.

In 22 June 1893, Queen Victoria raised Francis Archibald Douglas, the heir of the 9th Marquess, to the peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Kelhead.

* Francis Vinton Greene, Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-General in the Army of the Revolution ( New York, 1893 ), in the " Great Commanders Series "

In 1893, George Francis FitzGerald noted that the upper layers of the atmosphere must be fairly good conductors.

He had already produced an edition of the Didache, and in November 1893 published his important Life of Francis of Assisi.

* George William Francis Sackville Russell, 10th Duke of Bedford ( 1852 – 1893 ), eldest son of the 9th Duke, died without issue

A Bertillon record for Francis Galton, from a visit to Bertillon's laboratory in 1893.

He was also credited by Lorentz ( 1895 ) with the first published description of the length contraction hypothesis, in 1893, though in fact Lodge's friend George Francis FitzGerald had first suggested the idea in print in 1889.

* Thomas Francis Brennan ( 1853 – 1937 ), American Catholic bishop ; 1st Catholic bishop of Dallas 1891 – 1893

Apparently, the colony was not a viable financial enterprise, due to the repeated failure of crops, the lack of markets for the crops they did produce, and the frequent flooding of the Rio Grande ; Newbrough's wife, Francis van de Water Sweet, had married Howland in 1893 " to put an end to malicious gossip " but the cost of maintaining the colony proved too high.

Francis Parkman ( September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893 ) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America.

Francis Philip Fleming ( September 28, 1841December 20, 1908 ) was an American politician and the 15th Governor of Florida from 1889 to 1893.