* 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer ( d. 1883 )

* 1883 – Dally Messenger, Australian footballer ( d. 1959 )

* 1883 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist ( d. 1923 )

* 1883 – Scott Nearing, American writer and educator ( d. 1983 )

* 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer ( d. 1883 )

* Adrian Stoop ( 1883 – 1957 ), English rugby union player

* 1883 – Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor and architect ( d. 1962 )

* 1883 – The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.

* 1883 – The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

* 1883 – Pauline Frederick, American actress ( d. 1938 )

* 1883 – Martha Hedman, Swedish-American actress ( d. 1974 )

* 1883 – Marion Lorne, American actress ( d. 1968 )

* 1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese politician, 9th President of Portugal ( d. 1965 )

* 1883 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded the Chanel Company ( d. 1971 )

* 1883 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress ( d. 1961 )

* 1852 – Arnold Toynbee, English economist and historian ( d. 1883 )

* 1883 – Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general ( d. 1953 )

* Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope ( 1883 – 1963 ), nicknamed ABC, a British World War II admiral

* 1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player ( d. 1938 )

* 1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian mathematician ( d. 1953 )

A Theatre and Concert Hall was constructed in 1883, which was renovated and expanded in 1995 – 96.

* 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist ( b. 1883 )

( 1812 – 1883 ), originally named Bezime, a Vlach.

* 1883 – Gino Severini, Italian painter ( d. 1966 )

On August 21, 1883, a tornado struck Rochester, causing at least 37 deaths in the area and over 200 injuries.

The event that is usually credited with beginning the " Mayo Clinic Story " happened in 1883, when a tornado devastated Rochester.

On August 21, 1883, a terrible tornado struck Rochester, killing 24 people and seriously injuring over 40 others.

On August 21, 1883, the Great Tornado demolished much of Rochester, leaving 37 dead and about 200 injured.

He also edited the English works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester ( 1876 ); Thomas Baker's History of St John's College, Cambridge ( 1869 ); Richard of Cirencester's Speculum historiale de gestis regum Angliae 447 – 1066 ( 1863 – 1869 ); Roger Ascham's Schoolmaster ( new ed., 1883 ); the Latin Heptateuch ( 1889 ); and the Journal of Philology.

The W & N leased the N & R in 1874, and the two companies merged into the Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad in 1883.

Wagner College was founded in 1883 in Rochester, New York, as the Rochester Lutheran Proseminary to train Lutheran ministers.

The Genesee Valley Terminal Railroad was incorporated August 14, 1882, and in 1883 opened a branch from the Genesee Valley Railroad southwest of Rochester north to a junction with the New York Central Railroad main line at Lincoln Park.

Between 1883 and 1889, Hill built his railroads across Minnesota, into Wisconsin, and across North Dakota to Montana.

The city was named after William Windom, who served as a United States Senator from Minnesota from 1881 – 1883, and was United States Secretary of the Treasury under presidents James Garfield, Chester Arthur and Benjamin Harrison, by Judson W. Bishop.

Originally called Grass Lake Township, it was renamed after the village of Brunswick, Minnesota, in 1883.

When the " Thirteen Towns ", 13 townships in Polk County, Minnesota, were opened for settlement in 1883, settlers homesteaded the region.

While a representative to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1883, Parker was instrumental in introducing legislation for the establishment of Hubbard County and making Park Rapids its county seat.

By 1883 the Minnesota Iron Company had purchased all but four acres of Thomas Sextons land around Agate Bay.

In 1883, the Northern Pacific completed its line from St. Paul, Minnesota, to present-day Wallula, Washington, where it connected to the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company tracks down the south side of the Columbia River.

From the book " Indian Legends of Minnesota " by Mrs. Carl T. Thayer, J. R. Osgood & Co., 1883, pp 583 – 593, " It is said that a Sioux maiden fell in love with a Chippewa brave.

In 1881 a regional market was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in 1883 introduced futures for the first time.

The son of Minnesota House Speaker John L. Merriam, he served in the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1883 and 1887 and was the Speaker of the House in 1887.

He served as a Republican in the United States Senate from Minnesota from March 4, 1883, to March 4, 1889 in the 48th, 49th, and 50th congresses.

He was born in 1883 in Hancock, Minnesota.

This construction was part of the mainline from St. Paul, Minnesota to the Pacific port of Tacoma, Washington completed in 1883, and it is still in operation today as part of the BNSF ( Burlington Northern Sante Fe ) railroad.

He completed the line between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Wallula ( where it connected with the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company ’ s line to Portland ), witnessing the driving of the last spike on September 8, 1883.

It took root at no fewer than fourteen colleges in those latter days: Omega was founded at University of Chicago in 1864 ; Pi at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1865 ; Lambda, Bowdoin College, 1867 ; Beta, University of Virginia, 1868 ; Psi, Cornell University, 1868 ; Iota, UC Berkeley, 1870 ; Gamma, first at the US Naval Academy in 1874, and then at Syracuse College in 1875 after the government proscribed Fraternities at its military academies ; Theta Xi, University of Toronto, 1879 ; Alpha, Columbia University, 1879 ; Alpha Psi, McGill University, 1883 ; Nu, Case Western Reserve, 1884 ; Eta, Yale, 1889 ; Mu, Stanford, 1892 ; Alpha Beta, University of Minnesota, 1899 ( The establishment of the Eta chapter at Yale made Zeta Psi the only fraternity to establish chapters at all eight Ivy-League schools ).

A lawyer of Irish Catholic ancestry, he served as the mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota from 1883 to 1885 List of Mayors of Saint Paul, Minn.

The son of Johannes, David Buel Knickerbacker ( 1833 – 1894 ), who maintained the original spelling of the family name, graduated at Trinity College in 1853 and at the General Theological Seminary in 1856, was a rector for many years at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in 1883 was consecrated Protestant Episcopal bishop of Indiana.

In 1883 to 1927 the Minnesota State Fair was held in town ; special trains brought crowds from the rest of the state.