* 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 – Gisela Richter, English archaeologist and historian ( d. 1972 )

* 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 )

* 1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

* 1882 – James Joyce, Irish author ( d. 1941 )

* 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D. C. for the assassination of U. S. President James Garfield.

* 1882 – James Larkin White, miner, explorer, and park ranger, discovered the Carlsbad Caverns ( d. 1946 )

Henri Bergson ( 1859 – 1941 ), on the other hand, emphasized the difference between scientific, clock time and the direct, subjective, human experience of time His work on time and consciousness " had a great influence on twentieth-century novelists ," especially those modernists who used the stream of consciousness technique, such as Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, ( 1915 ), James Joyce, Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Virginia Woolf ( 1882 – 1941 ) Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), To the Lighthouse ( 1927 ).

Other philosophers who embraced panentheism have included Thomas Hill Green ( 1839 – 1882 ), James Ward ( 1843 – 1925 ), Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison ( 1856 – 1931 ) and Samuel Alexander ( 1859 – 1938 ).

* 1847 – Jesse James, American criminal and murderer ( d. 1882 )

* 1841 – Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher, writer, and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield ( d. 1882 )

* May 21 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1882 )

** Neil James Archibald Primrose, MP ( killed in action ) ( b. 1882 )

* March 19 – James Somerville, British admiral ( b. 1882 )

* January 13 – James Joyce, Irish writer ( b. 1882 )

* April 12 – James Gleason, American actor ( b. 1882 )

* 3 April 1882 — Bob Ford assassinates Jesse James, legendary outlaw.

* 1882: James Atkinson of Hampstead, London, England invented the Atkinson cycle engine.

* 1882 – 1883: James Wimshurst of Poplar, London, England

** James Young, Scottish footballer, motorcycle accident ( b. 1882 )

* September 8 – Charles J. Guiteau, American lawyer and assassin of James A. Garfield ( d. 1882 )

* September 5 – Jesse James, American outlaw ( d. 1882 )

Porter traveled with Dr. James K. Hall to Texas in March 1882, hoping that a change of air would help alleviate a persistent cough he had developed.

He came from a political family: his father James Herbert Wilson ( December 1882 – 1971 ) was a works chemist who had been active in the Liberal Party and then joined the Labour Party.

* Grimm, Jacob ( 1882 ) translated by James Steven Stallybrass.

Painted in Nottingham, England around 1860 by John James Story ( d. 1900 ), it depicts the life and career of the great Italian patriot, Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ).