What Happened in October 1893

Historical Events

Pathetique

Oct 28 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts first performance of his Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique", in St. Petersburg, Russia, 9 days before his death

Oct 30 US Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890

Events in 1893

Famous Birthdays

Oct 1 Cliff Friend, American pianist and songwriter, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1974)
Oct 1 Faith Baldwin, American author (They Who Love), born in New Rochelle, New York (d. 1978)
Oct 1 Ip Man, Chinese martial artist, and a master teacher of Wing Chun, born in Foshan, Guangdong, Qing China (d. 1972)
Oct 1 Marianne Brandt, German painter, sculptor and metalworker at the Bauhaus, born in Chemnitz, Germany (d. 1983) [1]
Oct 2 Leroy Shield [Shields], American pianist, composer (Laurel & Hardy; Our Gang; Union Pacific Suite), and orchestra leader, born in Waseca, Minnesota (d. 1962)
Oct 3 Bedřich Havlík, Czech composer, born in Řípec, Czech Republic (d. 1964)
Oct 6 Earle Hodgins, American film and television fast-talking character actor (Guestward Ho!), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1964)
Oct 8 Orovida Camille Pissarro, British painter and etcher, born in Epping, England (d. 1968)
Oct 9 Heinrich George [Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz], German actor (Hitlerjunge Quex), born in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany (d. 1946)
Oct 9 Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer, photographer and modernist, born in São Paulo (d. 1945)
Oct 10 August Balthazar, Belgian politician, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1952)
Oct 10 Lester Lonergan Jr, American stage and screen actor (Guilty Bystander; The Growing Paynes), born in Peterson, New Jersey (d. 1959)
Oct 10 Willi Apel, German-American musicologist (Harvard Dictionary of Music), born in Konitz, West Prussia (d. 1988)
Oct 12 Freddie Martin, West Indian cricket batsman, (9 Tests, 1 x 100; Jamaica), born in Kingston, Jamaica (d. 1967)
Oct 12 Páll Ísólfsson, Icelandic organist and composer, born in Stokkseyri, Iceland (d. 1974)
Oct 12 Velvalee Dickinson, American spy, convicted of espionage against the United States on behalf of Japan during World War II, born in Sacramento, California (d. 1980)

Oct 14 Lillian Gish, American silent film and stage actress (Birth of a Nation), born in Springfield, Ohio (d. 1993)
Oct 15 Carol II, King of Romania (1930-40), born in Peleș Castle, Sinaia, Kingdom of Romania (d. 1953)
Oct 15 Ina Claire [Fagan], American stage and screen actress (Ninotchika), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1985)
Oct 17 Fritz Ascher, German Expressionist artist, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1970)
Oct 17 Jean Binet, Swiss composer, snd educstor (Jaques Dalcroze method), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1960)
Oct 18 Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966)
Oct 18 Roy Del Ruth, American filmmaker (About Face, Babe Ruth Story, Star Show), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1961)

Sidney Holland (1893-1961)

Oct 18 Prime Minister of New Zealand (National: 1949-57), born in Greendale, New Zealand

Oct 20 Charley Chase, American comedian, actor and director (d. 1940)
Oct 23 Ernest Julius Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist known for his studies of meteors and the structure and evolution of the cosmos, born in Kunda, Estonia, Russian Empire (d. 1985)
Oct 23 Jean Absil, Belgian organist and composer (Benedictions; Peau d'Ane), born in Bonsecours; (d. 1974)

Merian C. Cooper (1893-1973)

Oct 24 American film director and producer (King Kong) and aviator (Kościuszko Squadron, Director-Pan American Airways), born in Jacksonville, Florida

Oct 26 Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet (Seobe), born in Csongrád, Austria-Hungary (d. 1977)
Oct 28 Christopher Kelk Ingold, English chemist (Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules), born in London (d. 1970)
Oct 28 Otto Huiswoud, Suriname-born political activist and editor-in-chief (Negro Worker), born in Paramaribo, Suriname (d. 1961)
Oct 30 Charles Atlas [Angelo Siciliano], Italian-American bodybuilder, born in Acri, Cosenza, Italy (d. 1972)
Oct 30 Jan Romein, Dutch historian and author (Low Countries by the Sea; Erflaters - both written with his wife Annie), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1962)
Oct 30 Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (July 20th plotter case) and politician, born in Celle, Lower Saxony, German Empire (d. 1945)

Born in 1893

Famous Weddings

Booker T. Washington

Oct 12 Education pioneer Booker T. Washington (37) weds Margaret James Murray

Famous Deaths

Oct 4 Pieter Elout van Soeterwoude, Dutch politician (AR), dies at 88
Oct 6 Ford Madox Brown, British painter, dies at 72
Oct 10 Lip Pike, American baseball player, dies at 48
Oct 16 Carlo Pedrotti, composer, dies at 75
Oct 16 Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)

Oct 18 French composer (Faust; La reine the Saba; Funeral March of a Marionette), dies at 75

Oct 18 Lucy Stone, American abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Association), dies at 75
Oct 24 Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr, Austrian violinist, composer, conductor, and pedagogue (Vienna Conservatory, 1851-93), dies at 64

John Abbott (1821-1893)

Oct 30 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative: 1891-92), dies of brain cancer at 72

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