* 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.

* February 26 – Gino Severini, Italian painter ( b. 1883 )

Gino Severini ( 1883 – 1966 )

Gino Severini ( 7 April 1883 – 26 February 1966 ), was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement.

** Benito Mussolini, Italian Fascist dictator ( executed ) ( b. 1883 )

The La Scala, Milan première of the 1883 revised version took place on 10 January 1884 in Italian.

Sergio Tòfano ( born Rome, Italy, August 20, 1883 – October 28, 1973 ) was an Italian actor, director, playwright, scene designer and illustrator.

A host of young Italian tenors — including the renowned Giovanni Mario ( 1810 – 1883 ) — copied Rubini's trend-setting innovation in order to heighten the emotional impact of the music that they were singing, and to facilitate the delivery of fioritura " by, as it were, running up and down the vibrato " ( to quote Scott ; see p. 126 ).

His wife, the American Mary Alsop King, wrote her recollections of their diplomatic experiences – Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883 – 1900 ( New York, 1903 ), and Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife ( 1904 ).

German architect Johannes Schultz ( 1876 – 1883 ) won the project by presenting a more original plan, something that appealed to the King's taste: a grand palatial alpine villa combining different features of classic European styles, mostly following Italian elegance and German aesthetics along Renaissance lines.

Other known foreign military consultants were the Italian Major Pompeo Grillo, who worked at the Osaka foundry from 1884 to 1888, followed by Major Quaratezi from 1889 to 1890, and the Dutch Captain Schermbeck, who worked on improving coastal defenses from 1883 to 1886.

* Umberto Saba ( 1883 – 1957 ), Italian poet and novelist

The English set up the Special Irish Branch ( later to be named just Special Branch ) in 1883 and in the United States the ‘ Italian ’ Squad was set up in 1906 before different federal agencies started to run their own undercover programs.

Michele Bianchi ( 22 July 1883 – 3 February 1930 ) was an Italian revolutionary syndicalist leader.

Italian immigrants first came to the area around Syracuse, New York in 1883 after providing labor for the construction of the West Shore Railroad.

Father Alberto Maria De Agostini ( 2 November 1883 – 25 December 1960 ) born in Pollone, Piedmont was an Italian missionary of the Salesians of Don Bosco order as well as a passionate mountaineer, explorer, geographer, ethnographer, photographer and cinematographer.

* MUSSOLINI, Benito Amilcare Andrea ( 1883 – 1945 ) Dictator of Fascist Italy and the Italian Social Republic, known as Il Duce.

The overall design was described in 1883 as " Italian, modified to suit the requirements of the climate ," though the same year an early visitor noted in the guest book: " It is an unpretending looking structure, of nondescript architecture and with no outside ornamentation.

* Mario ( tenor ) ( 1810 – 1883 ), Italian opera singer

The process was initiated by Agostino Depretis, the Italian Prime Minister in 1883, who was a member of the Constitutional Left party.

She spent the years between 1880 and 1886 in Rome, where she published her next five volumes of short stories and novels, all dealing with ordinary Italian, and especially Roman, life, and distinguished by great accuracy of observation and depth of insight: Cuore infermo ( 1881 ), Fior di passione ( 1883 ), La conquista di Roma ( 1885 ), La Virtù di checchina ( 1884 ), and Piccole anime ( 1883 ).

Count Carlo Pellion di Persano ( 11 March 1806-28 July 1883 ) was an Italian admiral and politician, who was commander of the Regia Marina fleet at the 1866 Battle of Lissa.

Francesco de Sanctis ( March 28, 1817 – December 29, 1883 ) was an Italian literary critic, considered one of the most important scholars of Italian language and literature in the 19th century.

* Enrico Gamba ( 1831 – 1883 ), notable Italian artist