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1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was
a common year starting
on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1893rd year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
893rd year of the 2nd millennium,
the 93rd year of the 19th century,
and the 4th year of the 1890s decade. As of
the start of 1893, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit]
January 2: standard railroad
chronometers.
March 10: Ivory Coast becomes French colony. ·
January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad
chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece
standards in North America. ·
January 6 – The Washington
National Cathedral is chartered by Congress; the charter is
signed by President Benjamin Harrison. ·
The Independent
Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting. ·
U.S.
Marines from the USS Boston land in Honolulu, Hawaii, to prevent the queen from
abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. ·
January 15 – The Telefon Hírmondó service
starts with around 60 subscribers, in Budapest. ·
January 17 – Overthrow
of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and
the Citizen's
Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii, with the intervention of the United States
Marine Corps, overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani. ·
January 21 – The Cherry Sisters first perform in Marion, Iowa. ·
January
21 - The Tati Concessions
Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to
the Bechuanaland
Protectorate, now Botswana. ·
February 1 – Thomas Edison finishes construction of
the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New
Jersey. ·
February 19 – The SS Naronic is believed to
have sunk due to a storm. ·
February 23 – Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for
the diesel engine. ·
February 24 – American University is
established by an Act of Congress, in Washington, D.C. ·
February 28 – USS Indiana,
the first battleship in
the United States Navy comparable
to other nation's battleships of the time, is launched. ·
March 4 – Grover Cleveland is sworn
in, as the 24th President of the United States. ·
March 10 – Ivory Coast becomes a French colony. ·
March 20 – In Belgium, Adam Worth is sentenced to 7 years for
robbery (he is released in 1897). April–June[edit]
May 1: World's
Columbian Exposition, Chicago ·
April 1 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer is
established in the United States Navy. ·
April 6 – The iconic Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is
dedicated, after 40 years of construction.[1] ·
April 8 – The first recorded college basketball game
occurs in Beaver Falls,
Pennsylvania, between the Geneva College Covenanters and
the New Brighton YMCA. ·
April 17 – Belgian
general strike of 1893: Riots erupt in Mons;
the day after, the Belgian Parliament approves universal male
suffrage. ·
April 17 – The Alpha Xi Delta Sorority is
founded at Lombard College,
in Galesburg, Illinois. ·
May –
The Free
Presbyterian Church of Scotland is formed. ·
May 1 – The 1893 World's
Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the
public in Chicago, Illinois. The first United States commemorative postage stamps are issued for the
Exposition. ·
May 5 – Panic of 1893: A crash on the New York Stock
Exchange starts a depression. ·
May 9 – Edison's 1˝ inch system
of Kinetoscope is
first demonstrated in public, at the Brooklyn Institute. ·
May 10 – Nix v. Hedden: the United States
Supreme Court legally declares the tomato to be a vegetable.
June 20: Wengernalpbahnrailway. ·
May 23 – Mahatma Gandhi arrives in South Africa,
where he will live until 1914, lead non-violent
protests on behalf of Indian immigrants in the South African
Republic (Transvaal), and generally have a deeper experience
of such activities during these years. ·
June 4 – The Anti-Saloon League is
incorporated, originally as a state organization, in Oberlin, Ohio. [2] On December 18, 1895,
it becomes a nationwide organization. The same year, the American
Council on Alcohol Problems is established, along with
the Committee of Fifty for the Study of the Liquor Problem. ·
June 6 – Prince George, Duke of York
(later George V) marries Mary of Teck. ·
June 17 – Gold is found in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. ·
June 20 ·
The Wengernalpbahn railway in Wengen, Switzerland (Canton of Bern) is opened. ·
Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murdering
her parents in Fall River,
Massachusetts in 1892. ·
June 22 – The flagship HMS Victoria (1887) of
the British Mediterranean Fleet collides
with HMS Camperdown (1885),
and sinks in 10 minutes; Vice-admiral Sir George Tryon goes down with his ship. July–September[edit]
June 22: British Mediterranean Fleet flagship Victoria sinks. ·
July 1 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland is operated on in
secret. ·
July 6 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a
tornado; 71 people are killed and 200 injured. ·
July 11 ·
Liberal
general and politician José Santos Zelaya leads
a successful revolt in Nicaragua. ·
Kokichi Mikimoto, in Japan, develops the
method to seed and grow cultured pearls. ·
July 13 ·
Paknam Incident: Two French Navy ships are
fired upon by Siamese cannons stationed at the Paknam Fort, that guards
the Chao Phraya River. [3] Three
months later, Siam is forced to cede modern day Laos to
France. ·
Frederick
Jackson Turner gives a lecture titled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"
before the American
Historical Association in Chicago. ·
Dundee F.C., a Scottish football club,
is formed. ·
July 25 – The Corinth Canal is completed in Greece. ·
August 15 – The Ibadan area becomes a British protectorate, after a treaty signed by
Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with
the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton. ·
August 27 – The Sea Islands
hurricane hits Savannah, Georgia, Charleston,
South Carolina, and the Sea Islands, killing 1,000–2,000.
July 11: Mikimoto develops cultured pearls. ·
September 1 – William Ewart
Gladstone's Government
of Ireland Bill 1893, intended to give Ireland self-government, is
rejected by the British Parliament. ·
Under
pressure of a general strike, the Belgian
Federal Parliament enacts general multiple suffrage. ·
Russian
monitor Rusalka sinks in the Gulf of Finland, with the loss of all 177
crew. ·
Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, the
oldest Italian football club,
is formed. ·
The World
Parliament of Religions in Chicago opens its first meeting;
Hindu monk Swami Vivekanda receives a standing ovation, for his address in
response to his welcoming. ·
September 12 – American
Temperance University begins classes in Washington, D.C. (it
closes after 15 years, in May 1908). [4] ·
September 16 – Settlers make a land run
for prime land, in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma. ·
Swami Vivekananda delivers
an inspiring speech on his paper, at the World
Parliament of Religions in Chicago. ·
New
Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote. ·
Russian
ironclad Rusalka disappears
in a storm en route from Tallinn to Helsinki; her hulk is eventually discovered
in July2003,
off Helsinki. ·
September 21 – Brothers Charles and Frank Duryea drive the first
gasoline-powered motorcar in America,
on public roads in Springfield,
Massachusetts. ·
September 23 – The Bahá'í Faith is
first publicly mentioned in the United States, at the World
Parliament of Religions in Chicago. ·
September 27 – The World
Parliament of Religions holds its closing meeting in Chicago. ·
September 28 – The Portuguese sports club Futebol Clube do
Porto is founded. October–December[edit]
France conquers Laos. ·
October 13 – The Franco-Siamese Treaty
of 1893 is signed, as the Kingdom of Siam cedes all of its territories east
of the Mekong River to France, creating the territory of Laos. [5] ·
October 10 – The first car number
plates appear in Paris, France. ·
October 13 – The first students
enter St Hilda's
College, Oxford, England, founded for women by Dorothea Beale. ·
October 16 – American sisters Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill copyright their
book Song Stories for the Kindergarten including "Good
Morning to All". The melody, by Mildred Hill, is later adapted, without
authorization, by Robert H. Coleman as "Good Morning to You!", with
the second stanza containing the words to "Happy Birthday to
You", leading to a successful copyright lawsuit by the Hill
sisters in 1934. [6] ·
October 23 – The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO)
is founded by Bulgarians, in the
town of Thessaloniki. Its
aim is to liberate the region of Macedonia from the Ottoman Turks. ·
October 28 (October 16 O.S.)
– In Saint Petersburg (Russia), Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky conducts the first performance of his Symphony No.
6 in B minor, Pathétique, nine days before his death. ·
October 30 – The 1893 World's Fair,
also known as the World's
Columbian Exposition, closes. ·
November 7 – Colorado women are granted the right to
vote. ·
November 12 – The Durand Line is
established as the boundary between British India and Afghanistan, by a memorandum of
understanding signed by Sir Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of
British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan. ·
November 15 – FC Basel football club
is founded in Switzerland. ·
November 16 – Athletic club Královské
Vinohrady, later Sparta Prague,
is founded. ·
November 26 – The
Adventure of the Final Problem, by Arthur Conan Doyle,
is published in the December 1893
issue of Strand Magazine,
serialized in Sunday newspapers worldwide, and surprises the reading public,
by revealing that his popular character Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at
the Reichenbach Falls on May 4, 1891. [7] [8] ·
December 4 – First Matabele War:
The Shangani Patrol of British
South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated, by
more than 3,000 Matabele warriors. ·
December 5 – Plural voting is abolished
in New South Wales. ·
December 8 – In the United States,
the National
Education Association releases the final report from
the Committee of Ten at
a conference at Columbia University, recommending standardization of the high
school curriculum. [9] ·
December 16 – Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.
9 (From the New World receives its premiere
at Carnegie Hall,
New York City. ·
December 20 – Evergreen Park,
Illinois, is incorporated. ·
December – Carl Anton Larsen becomes
the first man to ski in Antarctica. Date unknown[edit] ·
Physicist Wilhelm Wien formulates Wien's
displacement law. ·
Millbank Prison in London is
demolished. ·
In
the U.S., the National Sculpture
Society (NSS) is founded. ·
Football
club Dulwich Hamlet is
founded. ·
TMI —
The Episcopal School of Texas is founded. ·
Colored High becomes the first African-American high school in Houston, Texas; its name is later changed
to Booker
T. Washington High School. ·
The Ardabil Carpet is brought to London. ·
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, is incorporated as
a town. ·
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 Săo Paulo is foreign-born. Births[edit] January–March[edit]
·
January 1 – Minoru Sasaki, Japanese general (d. 1961) ·
January 5 – Paramahansa
Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952) ·
January 10 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (d. 1948) ·
January 11 – Anthony M. Rud, American writer (d. 1942) ·
Edward Selzer, American film producer
(d. 1970) ·
Hermann Göring,
German Nazi official (d. 1946) ·
Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official
(d. 1946) ·
January 15 – Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician
(d. 1951) ·
Arthur
Smith, Australian public servant (d. 1971) ·
Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943) ·
Frankie Yale, American gangster (d. 1928) ·
January 27 – Soong Ching-ling, one of the Soong sisters, wife of Chinese
president Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981) ·
January 28 – Catherine Caradja,
Romanian aristocrat, philanthropist (d. 1993) ·
February 3 – Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978) ·
February 9 – Georgios
Athanasiadis-Novas, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1987) ·
February 10 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and
comedian (d. 1980) ·
February 12 – Omar Bradley, American general (d. 1981) ·
Ana Pauker, Romanian communist politician
(d. 1960) ·
Zénon Bernard, Luxembourgish communist
politician (d. 1942) ·
Katharine Cornell,
American actress (d. 1974) ·
Mikhail Tukhachevsky,
Soviet Army officer (d. 1937) ·
February 19 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (d. 1964) ·
February 21 – Andrés Segovia,
Spanish guitarist (d. 1987) ·
February 24 – Tokushichi Mishima,
Japanese inventor, engineer (d. 1975) ·
February 28 – Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect (d. 1979) ·
March 1 – Mercedes de Acosta,
American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (d. 1968) ·
March 3 ·
Beatrice Wood, American artist, ceramicist
(d. 1998) ·
Ivon Hitchens, English painter (d. 1979) ·
March 7 – Elsa Ratassepp, Estonian actress (d. 1972) ·
March 8 – Mississippi John
Hurt, American country blues singer, guitarist
(d. 1966) (some sources give his year of birth
as 1892) ·
March 11 – Wanda Gág, American children's author and
artist (d. 1946) ·
March 14 – Arthur C. Davis, American admiral (d. 1965) ·
March 18 – Wilfred Owen, English soldier, poet
(d. 1918) ·
March 19 – José María
Velasco Ibarra, former President of Ecuador (d. 1979) ·
March 22 – Kleber Claux, French-born Australian
anarchist, nudist (d. 1971) ·
March 24 ·
Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960) ·
Emmy Sonnemann, German actress, second wife
of Hermann Göring (d. 1973) ·
March 26 – Palmiro Togliatti,
Italian communist leader (d. 1964) ·
March 30 – Ethel Owen, American actress (d. 1997) ·
March 31 – Herbert
Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian (d. 1982) April–June[edit]
·
April 1 – Cicely Courtneidge,
British actress (d. 1980) ·
April 3 – Leslie Howard,
English actor (d. 1943) ·
April 6– Alfred Gerstenberg, German Luftwaffe general (d. 1959) ·
April 9 ·
Victor Gollancz, British publisher (d. 1967) ·
Rahul Sankrityayan,
Indian historian, writer, scholar (d. 1963) ·
April 12 – Robert Harron, American actor (d. 1920) ·
April 15 – Maximilian
Ritter von Pohl, German army, air force officer (d. 1951) ·
April 18 – Georges
Boulanger, Romanian violinist (d. 1958) ·
April 20 ·
Harold Lloyd, American actor (d. 1971) ·
Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor
(d. 1983) ·
Edna Parker, American supercentenarian
(d. 2008) ·
April 21 – Matsuji Ijuin, Japanese admiral (d. 1944) ·
April 23 – Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence
Agency director (d. 1969) ·
April 27 – John Ballance, 14th Premier of New
Zealand (d. 1839) ·
April 29 – Harold Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1981) ·
April 30 – Harold Breen, Australian public servant
(d. 1966) ·
May 3 – Konstantine
Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer, public benefactor (d. 1975) ·
May 8 ·
Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster,
rugby union player (d. 1963) ·
Francis Ouimet, American golfer, businessman
(d. 1967) ·
May 16 – Clement Martyn Doke,
South African linguist (d. 1980) ·
May 21 – Giles Chippindall,
Australian public servant (d. 1969) ·
May 23 – Ulysses S. Grant IV,
American geologist, paleontologist (d. 1977) ·
May 25 – Ernest
"Pop" Stoneman, American country music artist (d. 1968) ·
May 26 – Norma Talmadge, American actress (d. 1957) ·
June 4 – Armand
Călinescu, 39th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1939) ·
June 7 – Gillis Grafström,
Swedish figure skater (d. 1938) ·
June 12 – John R. Hodge, United States Army general
(d. 1963) ·
June 13 – Dorothy L. Sayers,
British crime writer, poet, playwright and essayist (d. 1957) ·
June 14 – Siggie Nordstrom, American model, actress,
entertainer, socialite and singer (d. 1980) ·
June 23 – Herman H. Hanneken,
United States Marine Corps officer (d. 1986) ·
June 24 ·
Roy O. Disney, brother, business partner
of Walter Elias Disney (d. 1971) ·
Suzanne La Follette,
American libertarian feminist (d. 1983) ·
June 26 – Big Bill Broonzy, American blues singer,
composer (d. 1958) (some sources give his year of birth
as 1903) ·
June 29 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958) ·
June 30 ·
Harold Laski, British political theorist,
economist (d. 1950) ·
Walter Ulbricht, German communist politician
(d. 1973) July–September[edit]
·
July 1 – Mario de Bernardi,
Italian aviator (d. 1959) ·
July 3 – Mississippi John
Hurt, American musician (d. 1966) ·
July 4 – Norman Manley, Jamaican statesman (d. 1969) ·
July 5 ·
Anthony Berkeley Cox,
English writer (d. 1971) ·
Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (d. 1976) ·
July 9 – George Geary, English cricketer (d. 1981) ·
July 11 – Edward "Eddie" Stinson, American
aviator, aircraft manufacturer (d. 1932) ·
July 12 ·
Ernest Cadine, French weightlifter (d. 1978) ·
John Gould Moyer, American naval officer,
31st Governor of
American Samoa (d. 1976) ·
July 18 ·
Orrice Abram
Murdock Jr., American politician (d. 1979) ·
Richard Dix, American actor (d. 1949) ·
Walter Hiers, American actor (d. 1933) ·
July 20 ·
Arno von Lenski, German military officer,
general (d. 1986) ·
George Llewelyn
Davies, British inspiration for Peter Pan (d. 1915) ·
July 22 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist
(d. 1990) ·
July 25 – Dorothy Dickson, American-born actress,
socialite (d. 1995) ·
July 28 – Rued Langgaard, Danish composer, organist
(d. 1952) ·
July 30 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967) ·
August 4 – Fritz Gause, German historian (d. 1973) ·
August 6 – Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976) ·
Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (d. 1975) ·
Carl Benton Reid, American actor (d. 1973) ·
August 15 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer,
computing pioneer (d. 1950) ·
August 17 – Mae West, American actress,
playwright, screenwriter,
and sex symbol (d. 1980) ·
August 18 – Frank Linke-Crawford,
Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot (d. 1918) ·
Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967) ·
Wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1977) ·
August 23 – Aleksandr Loktionov,
Soviet general (d. 1941) ·
August 24 – Haim Ernst
Wertheimer German-born Israeli biochemist, recipient of
the Israel Prize (d. 1978) ·
August 25 – Henry Trendley Dean,
American dental researcher (d. 1962) ·
August 30 – Huey Long, Louisiana governor and senator
(d. 1935) ·
September 6 – Claire Lee Chennault,
American aviator, general, and leader of the Flying Tigers (d. 1958) ·
Juana Bormann, German Nazi war criminal
(d. 1945) ·
September 12 – Frederick William
Franz, American 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) ·
Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer
(d. 1960) ·
William March, American writer, soldier
(d. 1954) ·
Reidar Rye Haugan,
American newspaper editor, publisher (d. 1972) ·
September 30 – Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman (d. 1964) October–December[edit]
·
October 1 – Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer
(d. 1983) ·
October 8 – Clarence
Williams, American jazz pianist
and composer (d. 1965) (some sources give
his year of birth as 1898) ·
October 9 – Mário de Andrade,
Brazilian writer, 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) ·
Sidney Holland, 25th Prime Minister of New
Zealand (d. 1961) ·
George Ohsawa, Japanese founder of
Macrobiotics (d. 1966) ·
October 23 – Gummo Marx, American comedian, actor (d. 1977) ·
October 26 – Oliver P. Smith, American general (d. 1977) ·
November 2 – Victor Crutchley, British admiral (d. 1986) ·
November 5 – Raymond Loewy, French-born American
industrial designer (d. 1986) ·
November 8 – Prajadhipok, Rama VII, King of Siam
(d. 1941) ·
November 10 – John P. Marquand, American novelist
(d. 1960) ·
November 12 – Leonard F. Wing, American general,
politician (d. 1945) ·
November 13 – Edward Adelbert
Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986) ·
November 20 – Grace Darmond, Canadian-born American
actress (d. 1963) ·
Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician, Great
Purge perpetrator (d. 1991) ·
Raymond Collishaw,
Canadian World War I fighter ace (d. 1976) ·
November 24 – Fern Andra, American actress (d. 1974) ·
November 27 – Carlos
Alberto Arroyo del Río, 26th President of Ecuador (d. 1969) ·
December 1 – Henry J. Cadbury, American biblical scholar,
Quaker (d. 1974) ·
December 2 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer, pianist
(d. 2002) ·
Walter Stuart Diehl,
American naval officer, aeronautical engineer (d. 1976) ·
Wilhelm Pelikan, Austrian chemist (d. 1981) ·
Fay Bainter, American actress (d. 1968) ·
Hermann Balck, German general (d. 1982) ·
December 8 – Pierre Etchebaster,
French real tennis player (d. 1980) ·
December 23 – Ann Pennington,
American actress, 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[edit] ·
Otto Eppers, American cartoonist (d. 1955) ·
Henry Matthew
Talintyre, British artist (d. 1962) ·
Russell
Johnson, American cartoonist (d. 1995) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 2 – John Obadiah
Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805) ·
January 7 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist,
mathematician, and poet (b. 1835) ·
January 11 – Benjamin
Butler, American lawyer, politician, and general (b. 1818) ·
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) ·
January 27 – James G. Blaine, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator,
and U.S.
Secretary of State (b. 1830) ·
February 1 – George Henry
Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824) ·
February 4 – Concepción Arenal,
Spanish feminist writer, activist (b. 1820) ·
February 8 – Jennie Casseday, American philanthropist
(b. 1840) ·
February 10 – Henry Churchill
de Mille, American dramatist, playwright and father of Cecil B. DeMille (b. 1853) ·
February 17 – Sir
Arthur Cumming, British admiral (b. 1817) ·
King George Tupou I of Tonga (b. 1797) ·
Serranus
Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814) ·
February 20 – P. G. T. Beauregard,
American Confederate general (b. 1818) ·
March 7 – Francisco Robles, 6th President of Ecuador
(b. 1811) ·
March 16 – William H.
Illingworth, American photographer (b. 1844) ·
March 17 ·
Jules Ferry, French premier (b. 1832) ·
Lucy Isabella
Buckstone, English actress (b. 1857) ·
March 18 ·
Bandō Kakitsu I,
Japanese kabuki actor (b. 1847) ·
George Alexander
Baird, (Squire Abington), wealthy English horse breeder
(b. 1861) ·
March 21 – Mary Foot Seymour,
American school founder (b. 1846) ·
March 30 – Jane Sym-Mackenzie, second wife of Canada's
second prime minister (b. 1825) ·
April 8 – August Czartoryski,
Polish prince (b. 1858) ·
April 17 – Lucy Larcom, American teacher and author
(b. 1824) ·
April 19 – John Addington
Symonds, English poet, literary critic (b. 1840) ·
April 22 – Edward Fitzgerald
Beale, American adventurer, businessman (b. 1822) ·
April 26 – Harriette
Baker, American children's books author (b. 1815) ·
April 27 – John Ballance, 14th Premier of New Zealand
(b. 1839) ·
May 10 – Ion Emanuel Florescu,
2-time Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1819) ·
June 7 – Edwin Booth, American actor (b. 1833) ·
June 14 – Jakob Frohschammer,
German theologian, philosopher (b. 1821) ·
June 19 ·
June 19 – Margaret Manton
Merrill, English-born American journalist and translator (b. 1859) ·
William Rosecrans,
California congressman, Register of the
U.S. Treasury (b. 1819) ·
June 21 – Leland Stanford, Governor of California
(b. 1824) ·
June 22 – Sir George Tryon, British admiral (b. 1832) ·
June 23 ·
Sir Theophilus Shepstone,
South African statesman (b. 1817) ·
Sir William Fox,
2nd Premier of New
Zealand (b. 1812) July–December[edit]
·
July 2 – Georgiana Drew Barrymore, American actress,
comedian (b. 1856) ·
July 6 – Guy de Maupassant,
French writer (b. 1850) ·
July 16 – Antonio Ghislanzoni,
Italian politician, 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) ·
August 16 – Jean-Martin Charcot,
French neurologist (b. 1825) ·
August 20 – Baron Alexander
Wassilko von Serecki, Governor of the Duchy of Bucovina, member of
the Herrenhaus (b. 1827) ·
August 31 – Lucy Hamilton Hooper,
American writer and editor (b. 1835) ·
September 9 – Friedrich
Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist
(b. 1807) ·
September 28 – Bella French Swisher,
American writer, editor, and publisher (b. 1837) ·
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 17 – Patrice
de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general, politician, and 1st
president of the Third Republic (1875-1879) (b. 1808) ·
October 18 – Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818) ·
October 22 – Duleep Singh, ruler of Punjab (b. 1838) ·
October 23 – Alexander of
Battenberg, first prince of Bulgaria (b. 1857) ·
October 30 – Sir John Abbott, 3rd Prime Minister
of Canada (b. 1821) ·
November 6 – Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840) ·
November 8 – Annie Pixley, American actress (b. 1848) ·
November 22 – James Calder, 5th President of Pennsylvania
State University (b. 1826) ·
November 24 – Belle Hunt
Shortridge, American author (b. 1858) ·
November 28 – Sir Alexander
Cunningham, British engineer and archaeologist (b. 1814) ·
December 20 – George C. Magoun, American railroad
executive (b. 1840) ·
December 25 – Marie Durocher, Brazilian obstetrician,
physician (b. 1809) Date unknown[edit] ·
Julius Dresser, American writer (b. 1838) ·
Margaret Fox, American spiritualist medium
(b. 1833) References[edit] 1.
^ "Salt Lake Temple". 2.
^ George M. Hammell, The Passing of the Saloon: An
Authentic and Official Presentation of the Anti-liquor Crusade in America (F.L.
Rowe Company, 1908) p193, p414 3.
^ Martin Stuart-Fox, A History of Laos (Cambridge
University Press, 1997) p25 4.
^ Paul Hyoshin Kim, Jesus of Korea: Savior of the
People (Fortress Press, 2016) p75 5.
^ "Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1893", in Historical
Dictionary of Laos, by Martin Stuart-Fox (Scarecrow Press, 2008) p112 6.
^ James J. Fuld, The Book of World-famous Music:
Classical, Popular, and Folk (Courier Corporation, 2000) p267 7.
^ "The Death of Sherlock Holmes", advertisement
in Buffalo (NY) Evening News, November 24, 1893, p1 8.
^ "The Final Problem: The Last Episode in the Life of
Sherlock Holmes", by A. Conan Doyle, Philadelphia Inquirer,
November 26, 1893, p21 9.
^ Report of the Committee on Secondary School Studies
Appointed at the Meeting of the National Educational Association July 9,
1892" (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893)p1 Further reading[edit] ·
The
Year-book of the Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the colonies and
India: a statistical record of the resources and trade of the colonial and
Indian possessions of the British Empire (2nd. ed. 1893) 880pp; online edition |
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