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.

* 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 )

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

* Robert S. Stevens ( 1824 – 1893 ), American politician, U. S. Representative from New York

* January 30 – Robert Wood Johnson, American business leader and philanthropist ( b. 1893 )

* September 5 – Robert Harron, American actor ( b. 1893 )

# Robert Alexander Lamberton ( 1880 – 1893 ), lawyer

This 19th-century copra trading inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's 1893 novella The Beach of Falesá, based on his experiences in Samoa.

* Robert Montgomery ( sport shooter ) ( 1893 – after 1920 ), Canadian sport shooter who won silver medal for Canada at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Manned kite flying and aerial photography was advanced also by French Marcel Maillot, British Robert Baden-Powell, Americans Charles Lamson and William Abner Eddy, Australian Lawrence Hargrave ( inventor of box kite in 1893 and kite train in 1884 ) and French Captain Saconney.

* December 17 – Robert Nichols, poet and dramatist ( born 1893 )

* Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury ( 1893 – 1972 )

* Robert Harron ( 1893 – 1920 ), actor

Notable among these men were Robert M. Hughes, a W & M Board of Visitors member from 1893 – 1917, and J. A. C.

In 1880 the property was purchased by the Sager brothers and in 1893 Robert Sager had the palace remodeled and a new floor was added.

The nave was re-roofed and the Cathedral provided with new furnishings by Robert Rowand Anderson between 1889 and 1893.

( assisted by Hans Gadow, with contributions from Richard Lydekker, Charles S. Roy and Robert Shufeldt ) ( 1893 – 1896 ), Dictionary of Birds.

* Robert Anderson ( American cricketer ) ( born 1893 ), American cricketer

* Sir Clements Robert Markham ( 1893 – 1905 )

* Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury ( Moor Park, 1846 and The Bury, 1879 to 1893 )

* Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury ( Moor Park, 1893 – 1918 )

In September 1893, when the second Home Rule BiIl came on for second reading in the House of Lords, Herschell took advantage of the opportunity to justify his own 1885 sudden conversion to Home Rule, and that of his colleagues, by comparing it to the Duke of Wellington's conversion to Catholic Emancipation in 1829 and to that of Sir Robert Peel to Free Trade in 1846.

Robert Kaleski, of Moorebank, a young associate of Harry Bagust, wrote " in 1893 when I got rid of my cross-bred cattle dogs and took up the blues, breeders of the latter had started breeding ... to fix the type.

* Robert Wood Johnson II ( 1893 – 1968 ), 3rd president of Johnson & Johnson

* 1893: Bust by Robert Henze

* Robert Godfrey Wolesley Bewicke-Copley, 5th Baron Cromwell ( 1893 – 1966 ) ( abeyance terminated 1923 )