* 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 )

The estate was sold on 4 June 1883 to Sir Herbert Samuel Leon ( 1850 – 1926 ), a financier and Liberal MP.

The modern field and term were first formulated by Sir Francis Galton in 1883, drawing on the recent work of his half-cousin Charles Darwin.

Sir George Ferguson Bowen was governor from 1879 to 1883.

Antony and Cleopatra, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema | Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ( 1883 ).

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

Tony Rennell's book Last Days of Glory: The Death of Queen Victoria reveals that Victoria had entrusted detailed instructions about her burial to her doctor, Sir James Reid ( in lieu of Brown himself, who had died in 1883: the Queen's wish had been for him to attend to her ).

Charles William Siemens ( originally Carl Wilhelm Siemens and later Sir William Siemens ) ( 4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883 ) was a German-born engineer who for most of his life worked in Britain and later became a British subject.

The gorge was named in honour of Sir Archibald Geikie, the Director General of Geological Survey for Great Britain and Ireland when it was given its European name in 1883.

* Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars ( 1800 – 1883 ), Canadian-born British military leader

In 1883, John Forrest selected the site for the town, and it was named after Sir Frederick Broome, the Governor of Western Australia from 1883 to 1889.

General Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS ( 14 October 1788 – 26 June 1883 ) was an Anglo-Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer and the 30th President of the Royal Society.

Sir Edward Sabine died in East Sheen, Surrey, on 26 June 1883 and was buried in the family vault at Tewin, Hertfordshire.

On his death in 1883 this line of the family also failed and he was succeeded by his fourth cousin Sir Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, 3rd Baronet, of Stanwell, who became the ninth Earl ( for earlier history of the baronetcy, see below ).

* Sir Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, 3rd Baronet ( 1821 – 1887 ) ( succeeded as Earl of Chesterfield in 1883 )

* Sir William Siemens ( 1823 – 1883 ), industrialist

Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt ( 3 March 1883 – 10 October 1971 ) was an English educational psychologist who made contributions to educational psychology and statistics.

The university also holds Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published 5 July 1687 and Oscar Wilde's manuscript of The Duchess of Padua from 1883.

Stokes's mathematical and physical papers ( see external links ) were published in a collected form in five volumes ; the first three ( Cambridge, 1880, 1883, and 1901 ) under his own editorship, and the two last ( Cambridge, 1904 and 1905 ) under that of Sir Joseph Larmor, who also selected and arranged the Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of Stokes published at Cambridge in 1907.

Sir Hercules Robinson sent him to British Bechuanaland in August 1884 as deputy-commissioner to succeed Reverend John Mackenzie, the London Missionary Society's representative at Kuruman, who proclaimed Queen Victoria's authority over the district in May 1883.

This was followed by The Four Masters of Etching ( 1883 ), with original etchings by Sir FS Haden, Jules Jacquemart, JM Whistler, and Alphonse Legros ; Etching in England ( 1895 ); an English edition ( 1894 ) of E Michel's Rembrandt ; and a study and a catalogue of Whistler's Etchings ( 1886, 2nd edition 1899 ).

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians was first published in four volumes ( 1878, 1880, 1883, 1889 ) edited by Sir George Grove with an Appendix edited by J.