* 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 )

* 1883 – Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer ( d. 1972 )

Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg was born July 4, 1883, in San Francisco, California, to Jewish parents Max and Hannah Goldberg.

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

* September 11 – Max Fleischer, American animator ( b. 1883 )

** Max Linder, French silent film actor ( b. 1883 ) ( suicide )

The first true hollow charge effect was discovered in 1883 by the German Max von Foerster ( 1845 – 1905 ), chief of the nitrocellulose factory of Wolff & Co. in Walsrode, Germany.

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

Max Fleischer ( July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972 ) was an American animator, inventor, film director and producer.

Max Forrester Eastman ( January 4, 1883 – March 25, 1969 ) was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist.

" Beer Concert in Munich ," an 1883 painting by Max Liebermann.

Max Ernst Gustav Friedrich Wielen ( b. March 3, 1883 ) was the Kripo police chief at Breslau.

Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle (; 16 December 1883 – 31 October 1925 ), better known by the stage name Max Linder, was a French actor, director, screenwriter, producer and comedian of the silent film era.

Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton, GCB, DSO and two bars SGM ( 29 November 1883 – 30 July 1951 ) was a British submariner in World War I and commander-in-chief of the Western Approaches in the latter half of World War II, responsible for British participation in the Second World War's Battle of the Atlantic.

She would remain in Yiddish theater for the rest of her life, following Goldfaden and Goldstein to Bucharest, Odessa ( where she would star at the Mariinsky Theater in 1881 ) and through Imperial Russia until Yiddish theater was banned in Russia in 1883, then playing in Galicia, in Berlin, and in other locations in Germany, and then back to Romania, where she settled for a while with a theater company in Iaşi where, after Sokher Goldstein's death ( of tuberculosis, according to Rosenfeld ) she married another actor, Max Karp ; her great fame as a prima donna was achieved as Sophia Karp.

Max Joseph Pettenkofer, ennobled in 1883 as Max Joseph von Pettenkofer ( 3 December 1818 – 10 February 1901 ), Bavarian chemist and hygienist, was born in Lichtenheim, near Neuburg an der Donau, now part of Weichering.

They included Max Eastman ( 1883 – 1969 ), John Dos Passos ( 1896 – 1970 ), Whittaker Chambers ( 1901 – 1961 ), Will Herberg ( 1901 – 1977 ), and James Burnham ( 1905 – 1987 ).

* Max Hirschberg ( 1883 – 1964 ), a German Jewish lawyer

* Max Adler ( 1883 ), vice-president of Sears & Roebuck, benefactor of Adler Planetarium.