* 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 – Percy Grainger, Australian composer ( d. 1961 )

* February 20 – Percy Grainger, Australian composer ( b. 1882 )

* August 20 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1882 )

Percy Wyndham Lewis ( 18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957 ) was an English painter and author ( he dropped the name ' Percy ', which he disliked ).

* The Boy's Percy ( published posthumously in 1882 ), consisting of old ballads of war, adventure and love based on Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

The revival was part of a wider national movement in the period around the First World War, and contributed to the creation of a " national " or " pastoral " school of classical music which incorporated traditional songs or motifs, as can be seen in the compositions of Percy Grainger ( 1882 – 1961 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( 1872 – 1951 ), George Butterworth ( 1885 – 1916 ), Gustav Holst ( 1874 – 1934 ) and Frederick Delius ( 1862 – 1934 ).

Percy Williams Bridgman ( 21 April 1882 – 20 August 1961 ) was an American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.

Science and Cultural Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Percy Williams Bridgman ( 1882 – 1961 ).

The Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1908 ) reported two " holy thorns " were venerated, the one at St. Michael's church in Ghent, the other at Stonyhurst College, both professing to be the thorn given by Mary Queen of Scots to Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland ( see " The Month ", April, 1882, 540 – 556 ).

* Lord William Richard Percy ( 17 May 1882 – 8 February 1963 ), married Mary Swinton, daughter of Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton.

* Percy Grainger ( 1882 – 1961 ) Australian composer who collected and recorded English folk songs

* a children's march by Percy Grainger ( 1882 – 1961 )

* Percy Williams Bridgman ( 1882 – 1961 ), American physicist and 1946 Nobel laureate

In 1882, the East Riding of the county of Northumberland was defined to consist of the townships of Cramahe, Brighton, Murray, Percy and Seymour, the villages of Colborne, Brighton, Campbellford, and Hastings.

Martin Secker ( 1882 – 1978 ), born Percy Martin Secker Klingender, was a London publisher who was responsible for producing the work of a distinguished group of literary authors, including D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Norman Douglas, and Henry James.

Samuel Percy " Sammy " Jones ( 1 August 1861 in Sydney – 14 July 1951 in Auckland ) was an Australian cricketer who played twelve Tests between 1882 and 1888.

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, in Wales, on 27 October 1914, to David John Thomas ( 1876 – 1952 ), a teacher, and Florence Hannah ( née Williams ) ( 1882 – 1958 ), a seamstress.

* Johnnie Williams ( 1882 – 1916 ), Welsh international rugby player

He married Evelyn Katrine Gwenfra Williams ( 1855 – 11 March 1939 ) on 7 March 1882 ; they had no issue.

Raymond Williams compares Peer Gynt with August Strindberg's early drama Lucky Peter's Journey ( 1882 ) and argues that both explore a new kind of dramatic action that was beyond the capacities of the theatre of the day ; both created " a sequence of images in language and visual composition " that " became technically possible only in film.

Recorded wrecks on the 5 km stretch of coastline between Trwyn y Witch and Nash Point include: the Royal Hunter ( 1747 ), the Indian Prince ( 1752 ), the Elizabeth ( 1753 ), the Prince ( 1764 ), the George ( 1770 ), the Industry ( 1786 ), the Thomas ( 1806 ), the Bee ( 1820 ), the Harriet ( 1827 ), the Jessie Orasie ( 1831 ), the Frolic ( 1831 ), the Providence ( 1832 ), the Mayflower ( 1841 ), the New Felicity ( 1841 ), the Vigo ( 1842 ), the Betsey ( 1849 ), the Lucie ( 1854 ), the Williams ( 1854 ), the Mary & Deffus ( 1861 ), the Gillies ( 1862 ), the Elphis ( 1865 ), the Amelie ( 1870 ), the New Dominian ( 1872 ), the Bessie ( 1872 ), the John & Eliza ( 1876 ), the Jane & Susan ( 1882 ), the Ben-y-gloe ( 1886 ), the Malleny ( 1886 ), the Caterina Camogle ( 1887 ), the Denbigh ( 1888 ), the Tilburnia ( 1888 ), the Claymore ( 1892 ), the Lizzie ( 1892 ), the Elizabeth Couch ( 1913 ), the Narcissus ( 1916 ), the Pollensa ( 1919 ) and the Cato ( 1951 ).

After submitting proposals in competition with another engineer ( Hamilton Fulton ), Williams was then appointed by Daniel Adamson in 1882 to design a new ship canal linking Manchester with the Irish Sea.

He was professor at Williams College in 1835, professor at Lafayette College in 1853, president of Jefferson College in 1857, and principal of the State Normal School ( now University at Albany, SUNY ) in Albany, New York until 1882.

* George Williams ( died 1882 ), leader of the Church of the Firstborn ( Morrisite ) who identified himself as a reincarnation of the prophet Cainan

Local architects that have had a large influence on Portland's architecture include Francis Marion Stokes and his father William R. Stokes ( combined works include over 270 buildings from 1882 to the 1960s ), the Victorian-era architect Warren H. Williams ( architect of several surviving cast-iron buildings including the Blagen Block as well as the stick-gothic Old Church ) and Whidden & Lewis ( architects of Portland City Hall, the long demolished Portland Hotel, the Weinhard Brewery Complex, the Failing Office Building, several office buildings on SW 3rd Ave. and numerous residences ).