* Walter Scott Houston ( 1912 – 1993 ) who wrote the " Deep-Sky Wonders " column in Sky & Telescope magazine for almost 50 years.

* 1913 – Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, American geographer ( d. 1993 )

* 1941 – Bobby Moore, English footballer ( d. 1993 )

* 1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.

* 1993 – Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.

* 1993 – Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany

* 1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.

* 1916 – Tony Harris, South African cricketer ( d. 1993 )

* 1993 – Sarah Hecken, German figure skater

* 1993 – Heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas of Kyushu, Japan.

* 1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach ( d. 1993 )

* 1945 – Ron Jones, English director ( d. 1993 )

* 1949 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian wrestler ( d. 1993 )

* 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

* 1920 – Francis Lynch, American politician ( d. 1993 )

* Maj .- Gen. Dadash Rzayev ( February – June 1993 )

* Colonel Safar Abiyev ( June – August 1993 )

* Maj .- Gen. Vahid Musayev ( August – September 1993 )

* 1958 – Randy Shughart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1993 )

* 1993 – Dominika Stará, Slovak singer

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

* Michael Mates gift of watch to Asil Nadir ( 1993 )

* Hunter, Michael ( 1993 ).

* Tallmon, James Michael ( 1993 ).

Three eight-year-old boys — Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers — were reported missing on May 5, 1993.

* Langone, Michael: Deprogramming, Exit Counseling, and Ethics, Clarifying the Confusion, Christian Research Institute Journal, 1993

* Deprogramming, Exit Counseling, and Ethics: Clarifying the Confusion-by Michael D. Langone and Paul R. Martin, from the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, Winter 1993, page 46.

In 1993, Michael Wisher, the original Davros, with Peter Miles, who had played his confederate, Nyder, reprised the role in an unlicensed one-off amateur stage production, The Trial of Davros.

In 1993 in Singapore, after several expensive cars were spray-painted, the police arrested a student from the Singapore American School, Michael P. Fay, questioned him and subsequently charged him with vandalism.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

Michael Behe developed his ideas on the concept around 1992, in the early days of the ' wedge movement ', and first presented his ideas about " irreducible complexity " in June 1993 when the " Johnson-Behe cadre of scholars " met at Pajaro Dunes in California.

* 1993 – Michael Keane, English footballer

* 1946 – Michael Clarke, American drummer ( The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Firefall ) ( d. 1993 )

* Scriven, Michael ( 1993 ) Sartre and The Media.

In recognition of his improvement of the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith and earned the Japan Prize in the same year.

* Tim Finin ; Jay Weber ; Gio Wiederhold ; Michael Gensereth ; Richard Fritzzon ; Donald McKay ; James McGuire ; Richard Pelavin ; Stuart Shapiro ; Chris Beck: DRAFT Specification of the KQML Agent-Communication Language ( PostScript ), June 15, 1993.

* Grant, Michael ( 1993 ), The Emperor Constantine, London.

Palin was instrumental in setting up the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children in 1993.

* Robert Sobel-Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael Milken ( 1993 ), ( ISBN 0-471-57734-0 ).

In 1993, Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Michael Smith for his work on PCR.

* Gordon, Michael ( 1993 ), A Question of Leadership.

In 1993, Michael Dylan Welch edited and published Fig Newtons: Senryū to Go, the first anthology of English-language senryū.

* C. Peter Ripley, Roy E. Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree, Donald Yacovone, Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation ( 1993 )

Velociraptor are well known for their role as vicious and cunning killers in the 1990 novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton and its 1993 film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, in which they served as the main antagonists.

Michael Dowd was arrested in 1992 for his part in assaulting citizens and other corruption, testified about his and his colleagues activities to the Mollen Commission in 1993, was convicted in 1994 and sentenced to 14 years but paroled in 2004 after serving ten.