* 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 )

Felix became heir to the immense fortune after his older brother Nikolai Felixovich, Count Sumarokov-Elston ( born 1883 ), was killed in a duel on June 22, 1908.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin ( also spelled Lusin ; ; 9 December 1883 – 28 January 1950 ) was a Soviet / Russian mathematician known for his work in descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.

* Nikolai Krestinsky ( 1883 – 1938 ).

* 1883 – Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, Russian aircraft designer ( d. 1938 )

* 1883 – Pavel Filonov, Russian painter ( d. 1941 )

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

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

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

Alberto Gerchunoff ( January 1, 1883 – March 2, 1950 ), was an Argentine writer born in the Russian Empire, in the city of Proskuriv, now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine.

In 1883, a Russian magazine Русская старина ( Russian Old Times ) issued memoirs of an influential official of the Russian Ministry of the Interior, the privy councillor and staunch anti-Semite O.

* November 9-Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist and playwright ( died 1883 )

It was during this period that Plekhanov began to write and publish the first of his important political works, including the pamphlet Socialism and Political Struggle ( 1883 ) and the full-length book Our Differences ( 1885 ) These works first expressed the Marxist position for a Russian audience and delineated the points of departure of the Marxists from the Populist movement.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky (; 13 October 1883 – 15 March 1938 ) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician.

* Aleksandr Nekrasov ( 1883 – 1957 ), Russian mathematician and academician

Abkhazia was incorporated in the Russian Empire as a special military province of Suhum-Kale which was transformed, in 1883, into an okrug as part of the Kutais Guberniya.

He arrived at his theory after extensive field studies on Russian soils in 1883.

His most famous work is Russian Chernozem ( 1883 ).

* Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov ( 1883 – 1946 ), Russian composer

* Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov ( 1883 – 1946 ), Russian composer who wrote the musical score to the National Anthem of the Soviet Union

Russian imperial forces under Mikhail Skobelev captured the city in 1883 which then became part of Russian Turkistan.

Apart from the Russian Orthodox church, which had been transformed, as previously mentioned, from a Greek-Catholic church, the Catholic Church near the hospital was remade as a Russian Orthodox church in 1883.

Plekhanov, Deich, Zasulich and other ex-members of BR took sides with Marxism and created the first Russian Marxist organization called Emancipation of Labor ( Освобождение труда, or Osvobozhdeniye truda ) in Geneva in 1883.