* 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 )

* April 10 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter ( b. 1883 )

Khalil Gibran ( 1883 – 1931 ), who was born in Bsharri, is particularly known for his book The Prophet ( 1923 ), which has been translated into more than twenty different languages.

* April 10-Khalil Gibran, poet ( born 1883 )

* Kahlil Gibran ( 1883 — 1931 )

* date unknown-Butrus al-Bustani, Lebanese writer ( died 1883 )

* 1883 – Károly Kós, Hungarian architect, writer and politician from Transylvania ( d. 1977 )

* 1883 – Elizabeth Craig, British writer ( d. 1980 )

* 1883 – Franz Kafka, Czech-German writer ( d. 1924 )

* 1883 – Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian writer ( d. 1945 )

* 1883 – Ferenc Talányi, Slovene writer, journalist, and painter ( d. 1959 )

* 1883 – Urmuz, Romanian writer ( d. 1923 )

* 1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer ( d. 1883 )

* 1883 – Napoleon Hill, American writer and philosopher ( d. 1970 )

* Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi ( 1883 – 1945 ), writer

* April 19 – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, writer and Liberal Party politician ( d. 1883 )

)) – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer ( d. 1883 )

** Max Eastman, American writer ( b. 1883 )

* January 14 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer ( b. 1883 )

* March 4 – William Carlos Williams, American writer, stroke ( b. 1883 )

* March 21 – Edwin Balmer, American science fiction and mystery writer ( b. 1883 )

* July 9 – Ferenc Talányi, Slovene writer, partisan and painter ( b. 1883 )

* April 22 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer and irredenta ( b. 1883 )

* January 3 – Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer ( b. 1883 )

** Hubert Harrison, African American writer, critic, and activist ( b. 1883 )

The film also features, as " witnesses ," interviews with the 98-year old radical educator and peace activist Scott Nearing ( 1883 – 1983 ), author Dorothy Frooks ( 1896 – 1997 ), reporter and author George Seldes ( 1890 – 1995 ), civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin ( 1884 – 1981 ), and the American writer Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), among others.

* Theo van Doesburg, 1883 – 1931, painter, architect, writer.

* Henri Rivière ( 1827 – 1883 ), naval officer, writer

Jaroslav Hašek (; April 30, 1883 – January 3, 1923 ) was a Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist best known for his novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures, which has been translated into sixty languages.