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 )

* 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 )

" Blind " Lemon Jefferson ( Lemon Henry Jefferson ; September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929 ) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Texas.

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

In 1893, at the age of 40, Henry contracted typhoid fever and died, leaving Beatrice with three children, a house, and no savings.

Henry Smith ( born 1876 ) was an African-American who was tortured and murdered at a public, heavily attended and promoted lynching on February 1, 1893 at the Paris Fairgrounds in Paris, Texas.

** Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher ( b. 1893 )

* Henry Matthew Talintyre, British artist ( b. 1893 )

Carter Henry Harrison, Sr. ( February 15, 1825October 28, 1893 ) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1879 until 1887 ; he was subsequently elected to a fifth term in 1893 but was assassinated before completing his term.

There he met and became friends with Bert Phillips and the older and more experienced artist Joseph Henry Sharp, who told the two younger artists about his 1893 visit to Taos, New Mexico.

After a pointed lawsuit with Henry Hucks Gibbs, first Baron Aldenham over who should direct the restoration, Grimthorpe had the vault remade and reproportioned in stone, made the floor in black and white marble ( 1893 ), and had new Victorian arcading and sculpture put below the canopy work.

The IIF was able to invest in development projects due to Disston's purchase, and an opportunity to improve transportation presented itself when oil tycoon Henry Flagler began purchasing land and building rail lines along the east coast of Florida, as far south as Palm Beach in 1893.

Charles Henry, a large stock holder, coined the term " Interurban " in 1893.

* Henry Martin Tupper ( 1831 – 1893 ), minister and educator

* Henry C. Loudenslager ( 1852 – 1911 ), represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district from 1893 to 1911.

* Henry C. Loudenslager ( 1852 – 1911 ), represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district from 1893 to 1911.

His chief publications are his translation of the History of Herodotus ( in collaboration with Sir Henry Rawlinson and Sir John Gardiner Wilkinson ), 1858 – 60 ; The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, 1862 – 67 ; The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy ( Parthian ), 1873 ; The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy ( Sassanian ), 1875 ; Manual of Ancient History, 1869 ; Historical Illustrations of the Old Testament, 1871 ; The Origin of Nations, 1877 ; History of Ancient Egypt, 1881 ; Egypt and Babylon, 1885 ; History of Phoenicia, 1889 ; Parthia, 1893 ; Memoir of Major-General Sir HC Rawlinson, 1898.

* William Henry Powell ( 1893 ), " Columbus in Sight of Land "

* Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby ( 1826 – 1893 )

Popular poems about swagmen include Henry Lawson's Out Back ( 1893 ) and Shaw Neilson's The Sundowner ( 1908 ).

Frank Henry Willard was born on September 21, 1893 in Anna, Illinois, the son of a physician, who early on determined to become a cartoonist.

According to Irving Wallace ( in an essay originally in his book The Fabulous Originals but later republished and updated in his collection The Sunday Gentleman ) Bell was involved in several police investigations, mostly in Scotland, such as the Ardlamont Mystery of 1893, usually with forensic expert Professor Henry Littlejohn.

Henry Nettleship ( 5 May 1839 – 10 July 1893 ) was an English classical scholar.

* Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey by Henry Parry Liddon, completed by J. C. Johnston and R. J. Wilson ( 5 vols, 1893 – 1899 ), Last access 05-16-2008

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 ).