* 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 )

* 1883 – An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.

* 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 )

Edward Nangle died in 1883.

Sullivan had one installed as well, and on 13 May 1883, at a party to celebrate the composer's 41st birthday, the guests, including the Prince of Wales ( later Edward VII ), heard a direct relay of parts of Iolanthe from the Savoy.

* 1809 – Edward FitzGerald, English poet ( d. 1883 )

The translations best known in English are those by Edward FitzGerald ( 1809 – 1883 ).

Frank J. Sprague, a competent mathematician and former naval officer, was recruited by Edward H. Johnson and joined the Edison organization in 1883.

* October 18 – Edward Ord, U. S. Army officer ( d. 1883 )

* Lewis Edward Lawes ( 1883 – 1947 ), Reformist warden of Sing Sing prison

In the English-speaking world, he was introduced through the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám which are rather free-wheeling English translations by Edward FitzGerald ( 1809 – 1883 ).

The name comes from Edward M. Bowman, member of the territorial House of Representatives during the 1883 session.

Edward Burne-Jones designed the grand piano in 1883 that was part of the Ionides's bequest, built by Broadwood and Sons, of stained oak decorated with gold and silver-gilt gesso.

Her father, Edward Zimmermann ( 1879 – 1977 ), was an accountant with James H. Dunham & Company, a Manhattan wholesale dry-goods company, and her mother, Agnes ( née Gardner ; 1883 – 1974 ), was a school teacher.

* Jonathan Edward Caldwell ( born 1883 ), aeronautical engineer whose designs included an ornithopter, which would have flown by flapping its wings.

* Edward White Benson from 1883.

General Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS ( 14 October 1788 – 26 June 1883 ) was an Anglo-Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer and the 30th President of the Royal Society.

Sir Edward Sabine died in East Sheen, Surrey, on 26 June 1883 and was buried in the family vault at Tewin, Hertfordshire.

* Edward Heron-Allen published various works including in 1883 Palmistry-A Manual of Cheirosophy which is still in print.

It was independently discovered in the 1880s by Lewis Swift ( early 1880s ) and Edward Emerson Barnard ( 1883 ) as they hunted for comets.

By the time she began her acting career in 1883, two of Robson's three children died ; the surviving child was Edward Gore.

Edward Backhouse Eastwick CB ( 1814 – 16 July 1883, Ventnor, Isle of Wight ) was a British orientalist, diplomat and Conservative Member of Parliament.

He was the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas William Arnold Anson, Viscount Anson ( 1913 – 1958 ), the eldest son and heir apparent of Thomas Edward Anson, 4th Earl of Lichfield ( 1883 – 1960 ).

** Edward Fitzgerald, translator of Omar Khayyám ( died 1883 )

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

* Edward Sabine ( October 14, 1788 – May 26, 1883 ) – Irish participant in the Ross and Perry Arctic expeditions.