Editing 1893 in music (section)

==Births==
*[[February 10]] – [[Jimmy Durante]], American comedian and singer (died 1980)
*[[February 15]] – [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]], American songwriter (died 1947)
*[[February 21]] – [[Andrés Segovia]], Spanish classical guitarist (died 1987)
*[[March 8]] – [[Mississippi John Hurt]], American country blues singer and guitarist (died 1966)
*[[March 18]] – [[Jean Goldkette]], French-born American jazz pianist and bandleader (died 1962)
*[[April 2]] – [[Sergei Protopopov]], Russian composer and music theorist (died 1954)
*[[April 16]] – [[Federico Mompou]], Spanish classical composer (died 1987)
*[[April 18]] – [[Georges Boulanger (violinist)|Georges Boulanger]], Romanian violinist (died 1958)
*[[June 10]] – [[Hattie McDaniel]], singer and actress (died 1952)
*[[June 26]] – [[Big Bill Broonzy]], American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (died 1958)
*[[June 28]] – [[Luciano Gallet]], Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor (died 1931)
*[[July 25]] – [[Dorothy Dickson]], American-born British singer and actress (died 1995)
*[[July 28]] – [[Rued Langgaard]], Danish composer and organist (died 1952)
*[[August 21]] – [[Lili Boulanger]], French composer (died 1918)
*[[August 22]] – [[Dorothy Parker]], American writer, poet and lyricist (died 1953)
*[[September 13]] – [[Larry Shields]], American Dixieland jazz clarinetist (died 1953)
*[[September 24]] – [[Blind Lemon Jefferson]], blues musician (died 1929)
*[[October 1]] – [[Cliff Friend]], American Tin Pan Alley songwriter (died 1974)
*[[October 23]] – [[Jean Absil]], Belgian composer and organist (died 1974)
*[[November 8]] – [[Clarence Williams (musician)|Clarence Williams]], American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer and publisher (died 1965)
*[[December 7]] — [[Fay Bainter]], American actress (d. 1968)
*[[December 24]] – [[Harry Warren]], born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, American film songwriter (died 1981)