* 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 )

* 1948 – Frank Benford, American electrical engineer and physicist ( b. 1883 )

* 1883 – Frank Haller, American featherweight boxer ( d. 1939 )

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

Frank James was tried from August 20-September 6, 1883.

The first visit to Casa Malpais by a professional anthropologist was in 1883, when Frank Cushing, an anthropologist living at Zuni, visited a site at " El Valle Redondo on the Colorado Chiquito ", and was impressed by what he termed " the fissure type pueblo " he found there.

* BROTHERTON Frank H. Brotherton began mineral explorations near Sunday lake in the summer of 1883.

A post office opened on March 8, 1883, with J. Frank Schryer as the first postmaster.

Frank Morgan entered show business on the coattails of his older brother, Ralph Morgan ( July 6, 1883 – June 11, 1956 ), who was a Hollywood film, stage and character actor.

* Graver's Lane Station ( 1883 ), designed by Frank Furness.

Lon Chaney ( April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930 ), born Leonidas Frank Chaney, was an American actor during the age of silent films.

Franklin Clarence Mars ( September 24, 1883 – April 8, 1934 ), sometimes known as Frank C. Mars, was an American business magnate who founded the food company Mars, Incorporated, which makes mostly chocolate candy.

* Frank Joslyn Baum ( 1883 – 1958 ), American lawyer, soldier, writer, and film producer ; son of the author L. Frank Baum

His ideas, combined with those of fellow-inventors William Deidrick, Frank Dusy, and Abijah McCall, all of Selma, California led to the Fresno Scraper ( 1883 ).

Around 1883, Gerrit S. Scofield & Frank M. Scofield ( advertising agents from New York ) bought the Demorest brand and the sewing machine business ( the Demorests retained the magazine business ), and constructed a factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania ( in Lycoming County ).

In 1883, Lester Frank Ward published the two-volume Dynamic Sociology and formalized the basic tenets of social liberalism while at the same time attacking the laissez-faire policies advocated by Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner.

Born in New York City, Barbara Hutton was the only child of Edna Woolworth ( 1883 – 1917 ), a daughter of Frank W. Woolworth, the founder of the successful Woolworth five-and-dime stores.

Ernest Frank Guelph Cox ( 1883 – 1959 ) was an electrical and mechanical engineer and marine salvage expert from Wolverhampton.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 1883

The Gaiety was extended by theatre architect Frank Matcham in 1883, and, despite several improvements to public spaces and stage changes, it retains its Victorian charm and remains Dublin's longest-established, continuously producing theatre.

* Frank A. Oliver ( 1883 – 1968 ), New York Congressman

In 1883, he is also credited with recruiting into Edison's organization a naval officer Frank J. Sprague, whom he met at an International electrical exposition.

Additional buildings they designed include: Theodore Roosevelt's country house Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay Long Island ( completed 1887 ), Mount Morris Bank in Harlem ( 1883 ), the Victorian Renaissance revival style Main Building at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn ( 1887 ), the Queen Anne style Astral Apartments ( commissioned by Charles Pratt-built 1885 / 86 ) at 184 Franklin St. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn ( national register # 82001178 ), the Frank Babbott house at 153 Lincoln Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn, the main building of Barnard College in Manhattan, the John M. Greene Hall at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and " Copshaholm ," James Oliver's house in South Bend, Indiana.

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