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). [edit] Events of 1893 [edit] April–June [edit] July–September [edit] October–December [edit] 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.
[edit] Births [edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Deaths [edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
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