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 )

John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt ( July 3, 1893 or March 8, 1892 — November 2, 1966 ) was an American country blues singer and guitarist.

** Mississippi John Hurt, African-American singer and guitarist ( b. 1893 )

Karl Baedeker in his 1893 guidebook described Baton Rouge as " the Capital of Louisiana, a quaint old place with 10, 378 inhabitants, on a bluff above the Mississippi.

The final quarter jointly owned by two Bloomington brothers, Jesse W. Fell ( 10 November 1808 – 25 February 1878 ) and Kersey H. Fell ( 1 May 1815 – 1 May 1893 ) The five were a distinguished group of men and all had links to the Chicago and Mississippi Railroad.

* Arbelia Wood, purported but unverifiable supercentenarian, who was allegedly born April 6, 1893, Caledonia, Mississippi ( or 1885, as per some family sources, which claim she was a month shy of 120 at her death ); she died March 11, 2005, Clinton Township, Michigan.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar ( September 17, 1825January 23, 1893 ) was an American politician and jurist from Mississippi.

In the Great Flood of 1993, the Mississippi submerged all but a few rooftops and the steeple of the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, built in 1843 and moved brick by brick to the new location on Kaskaskia Island about 1893.

* T. Webber Wilson ( 1893 – 1948 ), US Representative from Mississippi

A native of Holly Springs, Mississippi, Crump moved to Memphis, Tennessee on September 21, 1893, according to the Holly Springs Reporter.

* Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II ( 1825 – 1893 ), American politician, jurist, and Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court from Mississippi

* 1893: Henry Peter Bosse publishes his large format Views on the Mississippi River between Minneapolis, Minn and St. Louis, Mo.

Other principal works include: the Lincoln Tomb, a sepulchral monument to President Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois ; Ethan Allen ( 1876 ), National Statuary Hall, United States Capitol, Washington, DC ; a heroic marble, Mississippi – The Father of Waters, Minneapolis City Hall ; Triumph of Ceres, made for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893 ; and a large bust of Lincoln in the Hall of Inscriptions at the Vermont Statehouse.

Paula Ackerman (, December 7, 1893 — January 12, 1989 ) was the first woman to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leading the Beth Israel congregation in Meridian, Mississippi from 1950-53 and the Beth-El congregation in Pensacola, Florida from 1962-63.

Hardy was born in Aberdeen, Mississippi in either 1893 or 1894.

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* 1893 – John Tyndall, Irish physicist ( b. 1820 )

Under the presidency of William Jewett Tucker ( 1893 – 1909 ), Dartmouth underwent a major revitalization of facilities, faculty, and the student body, following large endowments such as the $ 10, 000 given by Dartmouth alumnus and law professor John Ordronaux.

* 1805 – John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist ( d. 1893 )

# 1890 – 1893 Colonel John B. Weber ( Republican )

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.

All three principal types of resonator guitars were invented by the Slovak-American John Dopyera ( 1893 – 1988 ) for the National and Dobro ( Dopyera Brothers ) companies.

While a board of elders was elected for the enforcement of the Society's rules and regulations, business management passed to its trustees: Baker and Henrici, 1847 – 68 ; Henrici and Jonathan Lenz, 1869 – 90 ; Henrici and Wolfel, 1890 ; Henrici and John S. Duss, 1890 – 1892 ; Duss and Seiber, 1892 – 1893 ; Duss and Reithmuller, 1893 – 1897 ; Duss, 1897 – 1903 ; and finally to Suzanna ( Susie ) C. Duss in 1903.

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

* John Brewer Brown ( 1836 – 1898 ), U. S. representative ( D – MD, 1892 – 1893 )

* John Nash ( artist ) ( 1893 – 1977 ), English painter and engraver

* John George Walker ( 1821 – 1893 ), general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War

* John Charles Walker ( 1893 – 1994 ), American agricultural scientist

* 1979 – Robert John Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve, British businessman and public servant ( b. 1893 )

* 1813 – John Rae, Scottish physician and explorer ( d. 1893 )

This candidate received further support from Sir John Rhys, who, in 1893, proclaimed that the alternative spelling indicated an area straddling the England-North Wales border, Maleore in Flintshire, and Maleor in Denbigh.

In 1893, Rice made a new will, naming as executors James A. Baker Sr. ( a lawyer who often worked for Rice ), William M. Rice Jr. ( his nephew ), and John D. Bartine.

* January 21 – Al St. John, American actor, heart attack ( b. 1893 )

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