* 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 )

File: Claude Monet-Rock Arch. jpg | Rock Arch West of Étretat ( The Manneport ), 1883, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mer et bateaux ( Sea and ships ), 1883, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The Metropolitan Opera mounted the opera for the first time on 7 November 1883 during the company's inaugural season.

The Metropolitan Opera has given the work a total of 67 times since it first appeared there on 5 December 1883, most recently in February 2000.

She also appeared in the Metropolitan Opera's inaugural performance on October 22, 1883 in Gounod's Faust.

The first Special Branch, or Special Irish Branch, as it was known, was a unit of London's Metropolitan Police formed in March 1883 to combat the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

The first Metropolitan Opera House opened on October 22, 1883, with a performance of Faust.

The candlepower was a photometric unit defined in the English Metropolitan Gas Act 1860 and adopted at the International Electrotechnical Conference of 1883.

After this he assisted in the preparation of the Regents Canal Railway ( 1880 ), the Metropolitan Outer Circle Railway ( 1881 ), a new London-Eastbourne line ( 1883 ) and in various light railways in Ireland ( 1884 ).

Osterley & Spring Grove station and the tracks through the current station were opened by the District Line's predecessor, the Metropolitan District Railway ( MDR ), on 1 May 1883 as a line to Hounslow Town ( located on Hounslow High Street but now closed ).

Nilsson also performed the role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1883.

In March 1883 the London Metropolitan Police's Special Irish Branch was formed, initially as a small section of the Criminal Investigation Department, to monitor IRB activity.

Cady was the architect of the original Metropolitan Opera House, opened October 1883 ( demolished in 1967 ).

From 1 March 1883 to 30 September 1885 ( when the service was discontinued as uneconomic ) the Metropolitan District Railway ran trains between and Windsor which called at the station.

It was Faust with which the Metropolitan Opera in New York City opened for the first time on 22 October 1883.

Abbey also had the distinction of being the first manager of New York's Metropolitan Opera Company, which opened for its inaugural season in 1883.

Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir 081. jpg | Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mer et bateaux, 1883, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The registry for the Metropolitan National Horse Show, held at the original Madison Square Garden on Madison Avenue and East 26th Street since 1883, listing its attendees and directors, formed part of the basis of Louis Keller's Social Register, which was far more inclusive than Ward McAllister's " Four Hundred "— the number, reputedly, that could be accommodated in Mrs William Astor's ballroom.

File: The Puritan by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. jpg | The Puritan, bronze ( 1883 – 1886 ), outdoors in Springfield, Massachusetts, and indoors at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Boston Manor station was opened by the Metropolitan District Railway ( MDR ), on 1 May 1883 on a line to Hounslow Town ( located on Hounslow High Street but now closed ).

The route through Northfields station was opened by the Metropolitan District Railway ( MDR, now the District Line ), on 1 May 1883 on a line to Hounslow Town ( located on Hounslow High Street but now closed ).

South Ealing station was opened by the Metropolitan District Railway ( MDR, now the District Line ), on 1 May 1883 on a line to Hounslow Town ( located on Hounslow High Street but now closed ).

Hounslow Town station was opened by the Metropolitan District Railway ( MDR, now the District Line ) on 1 May 1883 as the terminus of a new extension of the MDR from Acton Town.

In March 1883 the theatre closed for alterations demanded by the Metropolitan Board of Works.