1893 (
MDCCCXCIII) was a
common year that
started on Sunday (link will
display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on
Friday of the 12-day slower
Julian
calendar).
Events of 1893
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
- The American
Council on Alcohol Problems is established, along with the
Anti-Saloon League and the
Committee
of Fifty for the Study of the Liquor Problem.
- Physicist Wilhelm Wien formulates Wien's displacement law.
- France
conquers
Laos
.
- A
general strike occurs in Belgium
.
- American Temperance
University is opened.
- Millbank Prison
in London is demolished.
- U.S. President Cleveland is
operated on in secret.
- In
the U.S.
, the
National Sculpture
Society (NSS) is founded.
- The Football Club Dulwich Hamlet
is founded.
- The Athletic Club Královské Vinohrady, later Sparta Prague, is founded.
- T.M.I.: The
Episcopal School of Texas is founded.
- Colored High
becomes the first African American
high school in Houston,
TX
; its name is later changed to Booker T.
Washington
High School.
- The
Ardabil Carpet is brought to London
.
- Evergreen Park
, Illinois
is founded.
- Sudbury
, Ontario
, Canada
is
incorporated as a town.
- St. Hilda's College, Oxford
is founded.
- William
Gladstone introduces a bill to give Ireland
self-government but it fails to pass.
- Small
anti-Semitic parties secure 2.9% of
votes in Germany
.
- Before 1893 – 8,000 Chinese arrive in Cuba
.
- 71.2%
of the working population of São Paulo
is foreign-born.
Births
January–June
- January 5 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d.
1952)
- January 12
- January 15 – Ivor Novello, Welsh actor and musician (d.
1951)
- January 22 – Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
- January 27 – Soong Ching-ling (宋慶齡), one of the Soong sisters, wife of Chinese president
Sun Yat-sen(孫逸仙, 孫文) (d. 1981)
- February 3 – Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)
- February 10 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and
comedian (d. 1980)
- February 12 – Omar Bradley, American general (d. 1981)
- February 13 – Ana Pauker, Romanian communist politician (d.
1960)
- February 16 – Katharine Cornell, American actress (d.
1974)
- February 19 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (d.
1964)
- February 21 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d.
1987)
- March 1 – Mercedes de Acosta, American poet,
playwright, costume designer, and socialite (d. 1968)
- March 3
- March 11 – Wanda
Gag, American children's author and artist (d. 1946)
- March 18 – Wilfred Owen, English soldier and poet (d.
1918)
- March 26 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist
leader (d. 1964)
- April 1 – Cicely Courtneidge, British actress (d.
1980)
- April 3 – Leslie Howard, English actor (d.
1943)
- April 9 – Victor Gollancz, British publisher (d.
1967)
- April 9 – Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan,
Great Indian Historian, Writer, Scholar (d. 1963)
- April 12 – Robert Harron, American actor (d. 1920)
- April 18 – Georges Boulanger, Romanian
violinist (d. 1958)
- April 20
- April 23 – Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence
Agency director (d. 1969)
- April 29 – Harold C. Urey,
American chemist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1981)
- May 3 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian
writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
- May 8
- May 26 – Norma
Talmadge, American actress (d. 1957)
- May 23 – Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and
paleontologist (d. 1977)
- June 14 – Siggie Nordstrom, American model, actress,
entertainer, socialite and singer (d. 1980)
- June 24 – Roy Oliver Disney, brother and business
partner of Walter Elias Disney
(d. 1971)
- June 26 – Big Bill Broonzy, American blues singer and
composer (d. 1958)
- June 30 – Walter Ulbricht, German Communist Politician
(d. 1973)
July–December
- July 3 – Mississippi John Hurt, American
musician (d. 1966)
- July 4 – Norman Washington Manley, Jamaican
statesman (d. 1969)
- July 9 – George
Geary, English cricketer (d. 1981)
- July 20 – George Llewelyn Davies, inspiration
for Peter Pan (d. 1915)
- July 25 – Dorothy Dickson, American-born actress and
socialite (d. 1995)
- July 30 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967)
- August 6 – Wright Patman, American politician (d.
1976)
- August 15 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and
computing pioneer (d. 1950)
- August 17 –
Mae West, American
actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex
symbol (d. 1980)
- August 22
- August 25 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dental
researcher (d. 1962)
- August 30 –
Huey Long, Louisiana
governor and senator (d. 1935)
- September 10 – Maria de Jesus, supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- September 12 – Frederick William Franz, President
of Jehovah's Witnesses (d. 1992)
- September 13 – Larry Shields, American musician (d. 1953)
- September 16 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian
physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1986)
- September 18 –
- September 30 – Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman (d.
1964)
- October 1 – Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer
(d. 1983)
- October 9 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and
photographer (d. 1945)
- October 14 – Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)
- October 15 – King Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)
- October 16 – Harry Donenfeld, American publisher (d.
1965)
- October 18 – Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of
Macrobiotics (d. 1966)
- October 23 – Gummo Marx, American comedian and actor (d.
1977)
- November 3 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American
biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine (d. 1986)
- November 8
- November 10 – John P. Marquand, American novelist (d. 1960)
- December 8 – Pierre Etchebaster, French real tennis
player (d. 1980)
- December 23 – Ann Pennington, American
actress and dancer (d. 1971)
- December 24 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress (d.
1961)
- December 26 – Mao Zedong, Chinese leader (d. 1976)
- December 29 – Berthold Bartosch, Bohemian animator (d.
1968)
- date unknown – Clement
Martyn Doke, South African linguist (d. 1980)
Deaths
January–June
- January 2 – John Obadiah Westwood, British
entomologist (b. 1805)
- January 7 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist,
mathematician, and poet (b. 1835)
- January 17 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United
States (b. 1822)
- January 23 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus
Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1825)
- February 1 – George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San
Francisco (b. 1824)
- February 18
- February 20 – P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general
(b. 1818)
- March 16 – William H. Illingworth, American photographer
(b. 1844)
- March 17 – Jules
Ferry, French premier (b. 1832)
- March 18 – Bandō Kakitsu I, Japanese kabuki actor (b. 1847)
- March 30 – Jane
Sym-Mackenzie, second wife of Canada's second prime minister
(b. 1825)
- April 8 – August Czartoryski, Polish prince (b.
1858)
- June 14 – Jakob Frohschammer, theologian and
philosopher (b. 1821)
- June 19 – William Starke Rosecrans,
California congressman and Register of the U.S. Treasury (b. 1819)
- June 21 – Amasa Leland Stanford, Governor of
California (b. 1824)
- June 23 – Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African
statesman (b. 1817)
July–December
- July 2 – Georgiana Drew Barrymore, actress-comedienne
(b. 1856)
- July 16 – Antonio Ghislanzoni, Italian politician
and journalist (b. 1833)
- August 6 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel,
member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
- August 7 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (b.
1854)
- October 6 – Ford Madox Brown, English painter (b.
1821)
- October 8 – John Willis Menard, African-American
politician (b. 1838)
- October 10 – Lip
Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
- October 18 – Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
- October 22 – Duleep Singh, ruler of Punjab (b. 1838)
- October 30 – Sir John Joseph Caldwell
Abbott, Canadian politician (b. 1821)
- November 6 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian
composer (b. 1840)
- November 22 – James Calder, 5th President of Pennsylvania
State University (b. 1826)