In the year 1893, the Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting (Jan 13), Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine (Feb 23), Gandhi arrives in South Africa where he will live until 1914 (May 23), New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote (Sep 19), Peder Krøyer completes his masterpiece Summer Evening on Skagen’s Southern Beach (Sep), the first car number plates appear in Paris, France (Oct 10), Edward Munch creates his most famous painting, The Scream - and all these fine people were born:
1893-0104 Yone Minagawa* 皆川 ヨ子 supercentenarian/the world’s oldest person at the time of death - Akaike, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan (2007/114)
1893-0112 Herman Göring* Nazi Party politician/military leader - Rosenheim, Bayern, German Empire (1946/53)
1893-0112 Alfred Rosenberg* Baltic German Nazi theorist and ideologue - Reval, Estonia, Russian Empire (1946/53)
1893-0113 Clark Ashton Smith* writer/ artist - Long Valley, CA USA (1961/68)
1893-0115 Urho Peltonen* athlete (javelin)/OS - Nurmes, GD of Finland (1951/57)
1893-0120 Francisco Scozzari Adamo* (b Scozzari) physician - Ybor City, FL USA (1988/95) Find a Grave
1893-0122 Ludy Langer* swimmer/OS - Los Angeles, CA USA (1984/91)
1893-0127 Oskari Friman* wrestler/OG - Vahviala, Viipuri Province, GD of Finland (1933/40)
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1893-0210 Jimmy Durante* singer/pianist/actor - Manhattan, NY USA (1980/86)
1893-0219 Anna Susanna Salovaara** (b Hakoniemi) married to Jaakko Eliel Salovaara - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1972/79)
1893-0220 Elizabeth Holloway Marston* attorney/psychologist/wife of creator of Wonder Woman - Isle of Man, England (1993/100)
1893-0221 Gunnar Malmquist* astronomer - Ystad, Sweden (1982/89)-a
1893-0221 Andrés Segovia* guitarist - Linares, Jaén, Spain (1987/94)
1893-0301 Mercedes de Acosta* poet/playwright/novelist - New York, NY USA (1968/75)
1893-0306 Ella P. Stewart* pharmacist - Stringtown, VA USA (1987/94)
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1893-0313 Arvi Tuomi* (b Bergström) actor/theater director/brother of Emmi Jurkka - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1951/57)
1893-0317 Eileen J. Garrett* medium/parapsychologist - Beauparc, County Meath, Ireland (1970/77) (alternate year of birth: 1892)
1893-0317 Arthur Lindfors* wrestler/OS/referee - Porvoo, GD of Finland (1977/84)
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1893-0403 Leslie Howard* actor/director/producer - Forest Hill, London, England (1943/50)
1893-0404 Hans Riegel Sr.* confectioner/inventor of gummy bear/founder of the Haribo company - Friesdorf, Bonn, German Empire (1945/51)
1893-0407 Irene Castle* (b Foote) ballroom dancer/dance teacher - New Rochelle, NY USA (1969/75)
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1893-0411 Frances Schroth* swimmer/OB - Toledo, OH USA (1961/68)
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1893-0420 Harold Lloyd* actor - Burchard, NE USA (1971/77)
1893-0420 Joan Miró* painter/sculptor - Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (1983/90)
1893-0420 Edna Parker* American supercentenarian - Morgan County, IN USA (2008/115)
1893-0430 Joachim von Ribbentrop* Nazi politician - Wesel, German Empire (1946/53)
1893-0507 Frank J. Selke* hockey manager - Berlin, ON Canada (1985/92)
1893-0509 William Moulton Marston* psychologist/ inventor of early polygraph/creator of Wonder Woman - Saugus, MA USA (1947/53)
1893-0523 Ulysses S. Grant IV* geologist/paleontologist - Salem Center, NY USA (1977/83)
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1893-0616 Philo McCullough* actor - San Bernardino, CA USA (1981/88)
1893-0619 Madeleine Astor* (b Force) socialite/Titanic survivor - Brooklyn, NY USA (1940/46)
1893-0624 Roy Oliver Disney* businessman/co-founder of WDP/the older brother of Walt Disney - Chicago, IL USA (1971/78)
1893-0629 Aarre Merikanto* composer - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1958/65)
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1893-0716 Beatrice Hutton* architect/the first female to be admitted to an architect school in Australia - Lakes Creek, Queensland, Australia (1990/97)
1893-0720 George Llewelyn Davies* inspiration for Peter Pan - London, England (1915/21)
1893-0801 Alexander of Greece* King of Greece - Tatoi Palace, Kingdom of Greece (1920/27)
1893-0807 Eloise Hughes Smith* (b Hughes) Titanic survivor/then pregnant with her only child - Huntington, WV USA (1940/46)
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1893-0817 Mae West* actress - Brooklyn, NY USA (1980/87)
1893-0822 Dorothy Parker* poet/critic/satirist - Long Branch, NJ USA (1967/73)
1893-0910 Juana Bormann* concentration camp guard - Birkenfelde, East Prussia (1945/52)
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1893-0925 Alexander Ostrowski* mathematician - Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire (1986/93)
1893-0928 Kaarlo Hildén* geographer/ anthropologist - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1960/66)
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1893-1008 Alberta Brønnum* (b Tholle) teacher/missionary/2nd wife of Niels Høegh Brønnum - Marstal, Denmark (1968/78)
1893-1023 Gummo Marx* vaudevillian performer/actor/theatrical agent - Manhattan, NY USA (1977/83)
1893-1024 Alexander Wilson* writer/spy/MI6 officer - Dover, Kent, England (1963/69)
1893-1026 Artturi Laakso* (b Adamsson) actor - Hollola, GD of Finland (1976/82)
1893-1106 Edsel Ford* car manufacturer - Detroit, MI USA (1943/49)
1893-1111 Clarence Chamberlin* aviator - Denison, IA USA (1976/82)
1893-1113 Jalmari Rinne* actor/brother of Joel Rinne - Asikkala, GD of Finland (1985/91)
1893-1212 Edward G. Robinson* (b Goldenberg) actor/ to U.S. at age 10 - Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania (1973/79)
1893-1223 Roy Brown* RAF officer/engaged in the fatal aerial combat with the Red Baron - Carlton Place, ON Canada (1944/50)
1893-1226 Mao Zedong* revolutionary/political leader - Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing Empire (1976/82)
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