* 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 )

Marshall returned to Cambridge, via a brief period at Balliol College, Oxford during 1883 – 4, to take the seat as Professor of Political Economy in 1884 on the death of Henry Fawcett.

* Political Department ( 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.

* Socialism and the Political Struggle ( 1883 )

Category: Political parties established in 1883

Political changes in 1883 caused a cooling in relations between Bulgaria and their protector Russia, who now opposed reunification.

Category: Political parties established in 1883

Political Economy, the first edition published in 1883, was one of the most widely used textbooks of the 19th century as a component of the American Science Series.

* Political Economy ( first edition, 1883 )

He proposed substantial civil service reform, eventually passed in 1883 by his successor, Chester A. Arthur, as the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.

Garfield's persistent call for civil service reform, however, was fulfilled with the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, enacted by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur in 1883.

The city was named after William Windom, who served as a United States Senator from Minnesota from 1881 – 1883, and was United States Secretary of the Treasury under presidents James Garfield, Chester Arthur and Benjamin Harrison, by Judson W. Bishop.

By 1900, Chester Atwood had increased his land holdings and his family included wife Patsy Ann ( familiarly called Mattie ), daughters Ottie ( b. 1883 ) and Arrie ( b. 1886 ), son Bennie ( b. 1887 ), daughter Allie ( b. 1889 ), son Coleman ( b. 1891 ), and daughters Lizzie ( b. 1893 ) and Ambrozia ( b. 1895 ).

Even though President Chester Arthur rewrote the Zuni boundaries in 1883 to correct the Nutria Valley omission, the damage had been done.

In 1883 he became an assistant to Daniel Chester French and concentrated on animal studies and working as a manager and salesman in the quarries.

* Chester Gillette ( 1883 – 1908 ), American convicted murderer

In April 1883 he succeeded Timothy O. Howe ( 1816 – 1883 ) as Postmaster General in President Chester A. Arthur's cabinet, taking an active part in the suppression of the Louisiana Lottery, supervising the successful September, 1883 introduction of Postal Notes, and in September 1884 succeeded Charles J. Folger as United States Secretary of the Treasury.

In 1883 Sir Thomas McIlwraith, the Premier of Queensland, ordered Henry Chester ( 1832 – 1914 ), the Police Magistrate on Thursday Island to proceed to Port Moresby and annex New Guinea and adjacent islands in the name of the British government.

Chester made the proclamation on 4 April 1883, but the British government repudiated the action.

* Chester W. Chapin ( 1798 – 1883 ), US politician

Arthur Chester Millspaugh, PhD, ( 1883 – 1955 ) was a former adviser at the U. S. State Department ’ s Office of the Foreign Trade, who was hired to re-organize the Finance Ministry of Iran from 1922 – 1927 and 1942-1945.

The Hualapai Indian reservation, covering 1, 142 square miles, was created by the Presidential Executive order of Chester A. Arthur on January 4, 1883.

Though the verdict was overturned in 1883 by President Chester A. Arthur, West Point reinstated the expulsion on the grounds that Whittaker had failed an exam.

In 1883, he arranged for President Chester A. Arthur, a fellow Republican, to take a fishing trip to Kissimmee as part of a large publicity campaign for the city.

The Chester section was leased to the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad who built a wooden bridge across the Catawba and extended the track one mile ( 1. 6 km ) beyond Lancaster in 1883.

On August 1, 1883, U. S. President Chester A. Arthur opened the first annual Southern Exposition, a series of World's Fairs that would run for five consecutive years adjacent to Central Park in what is now Old Louisville.

It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1881 to March 4, 1883, during the administration of U. S. President James A. Garfield, and the first year of the administration of his successor, U. S. President Chester A. Arthur.

It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1883 to March 4, 1885, during the last two years of the administration of U. S. President Chester A. Arthur.