* 1882 – Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor ( d. 1971 )

The English media dubbed the next English tour to Australia ( 1882 – 83 ) as the quest to regain The Ashes.

Bligh promised that on the tour to Australia in 1882 – 83, which he was to captain, he would regain " the ashes ".

The oldest, and the one to enjoy enduring fame, was the one presented to Bligh, later Lord Darnley, during the 1882 – 83 tour.

A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.

The 1890s games were more closely fought, Australia taking their first series win since 1882 with a 2 – 1 victory in 1891 – 92.

* 1882 – Red Ames, American baseball player ( d. 1936 )

* 1946 – Noah Beery, Sr., American actor ( b. 1882 )

In the mid-19th century important leaders included Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ) and Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ).

* 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author ( d. 1882 )

* 1971 – Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor ( b. 1882 )

* 1882 – Ladislas Starevich, Polish animator ( d. 1965 )

* 1882 – Seth Bingham, American organist and composer ( d. 1972 )

* 1882 – The " Elektromote " – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.

* 1882 – Marion Bauer, American composer, writer, and critic ( d. 1955 )

* 1882 – Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player ( d. 1968 )

* 1882 – Christian Mortensen, Danish-American super-centenarian ( d. 1998 )

* 1882 – Seán T. O ' Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland ( d. 1966 )

* María Teresa, ( 12 November 1882 – 23 September 1912 ), married to Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria on 12 January 1906

* 1838 – Léon Gambetta, French statesman ( d. 1882 )

** Gisela Richter, English art historian ( b. 1882 )

Gisela Marie Augusta Richter ( August 14, 1882 – December 24, 1972 ), was a classical archaeologist and art historian.

Richter did eventually conduct the piece in London in 1882.

Ferdinand Reich ( 19 February 1799 – 27 April 1882 ) was a German chemist who co-discovered indium in 1863 with Hieronymous Theodor Richter.

* 24 December-Gisela Richter, English archaeologist and art historian ( b. 1882 ).

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

:“ In 1882, she said, it was first spoken of when the Sporting Times, after the Australians had thoroughly beaten the English at the Oval, wrote an obituary in affectionate memory of English cricket “ whose demise was deeply lamented and the body would be cremated and taken to Australia ”.

* 1815 – Anthony Trollope, English novelist ( d. 1882 )

* 1882 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, English officer in the Royal Air Force and commander in RAF Fighter Command ( d. 1970 )

The English case of R v. Coney in 1882 found that a bare-knuckle fight was an assault occasioning actual bodily harm, despite the consent of the participants.

* Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection

** Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ), English naturalist and writer

* 1882 – Sir Jack Hobbs, English cricketer ( d. 1963 )

* 1963 – Jack Hobbs, English cricketer ( b. 1882 )

A. Milne, English author ( b. 1882 )

* 1882 – Virginia Woolf, English writer ( d. 1941 )

* 1882 – Geoffrey de Havilland, English engineer and businessman, founded the de Havilland Aircraft Company ( d. 1965 )

* 1792 – John Linnell, English painter ( d. 1882 )

* H. D. Traill, Laurence Sterne, " English Men of Letters ", ( London, 1882 )

by J. F. Condon, continued to 1861, New Orleans, 1882 ) is the first scholarly treatment of the subject, along with François Barbé-Marbois ' Histoire de la Louisiane et de la cession de colonie par la France aux Etats-Unis ( Paris, 1829 ; in English, Philadelphia, 1830 ).

* 1828 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English painter ( d. 1882 )

* 1965 – Christopher Stone, English disc jockey and broadcaster ( b. 1882 )

* 1940 – Eric Gill, English sculptor ( b. 1882 )

* 1803 – Joseph Hansom, English architect and inventor ( d. 1882 )