* 1980 – Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist ( b. 1883 )

* 1883 – Sir Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist ( d. 1972 )

* John Brown ( servant ) ( 1826 – 1883 ), Scottish servant of Queen Victoria

* 1912 – Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish Lieutenant, member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole ( b. 1883 )

His mother Hannah Simpson Grant ( 1798 – 1883 ) was of Scottish ancestry.

** Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish naval officer ( b. 1883 )

John Brown ( December 8, 1826 – March 27, 1883 ) was a Scottish personal servant and favourite of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom for many years.

Arthur Furguson ( 1883 – 1938 ) was ( or may have been ) a Scottish con artist who allegedly became known for " selling " English national monuments and other government property to visiting American tourists during the 1920s.

In 1883 the Scottish Missionary Church became too small for the quickly growing number of students and the university bought another building: Keizersgracht 162.

* Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1883 ), Scottish physician, naturalist and geologist

* July 13-James Young, Scottish chemist ( died 1883 )

* John Waterston, Scottish physicist and civil engineer ( died 1883 )

Alexander Sutherland Neill ( 17 October 1883 – 23 September 1973 ) was a Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school, which remains open and continues to follow his educational philosophy to this day.

* John Kendrick Skinner ( 1883 – 1918 ), a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross

Cunningham was born at Rathmines, County Dublin, on 7 January 1883, the third of five children born to Professor Daniel Cunningham and his wife Elizabeth Cumming Browne, both of Scottish ancestry.

* George Fordham – ( 1859 ), Nemesis ( 1861 ), Siberia ( 1865 ), Formosa ( 1868 ), Scottish Queen ( 1869 ), Thebais ( 1881 ), Hauteur ( 1883 )

** Scanned copy of split-leaf Scottish Psalter ( 1883 )

The club was founded in 1883 and currently competes in the Scottish First Division as a member of the Scottish Football League, having being promoted from the Second Division as champions in 2009.

The modern Raith Rovers were founded in 1883 in the Scottish town of Kirkcaldy, playing at Robbie's Park.

* Alex Bell ( 1883 – 1934 ), Scottish footballer

The British explorer Henry Morton Stanley made a voyage around Lake Victoria and Joseph Thomson ( explorer ) the Scottish geologist passed through Luhya territory around 1883.

John James Waterston ( 1811 – 18 June 1883 ) was a Scottish physicist, a neglected pioneer of the kinetic theory of gases.

* Sam Shearer ( born 1883 ), Scottish footballer

He was the son of Ragnild Kristine ( Sannes ; 1883 – 1973 ), a Norwegian immigrant, and Hubert Humphrey, Sr. ( 1882 – 1949 ).

The City of Roeland Park was originally named after John Roe, an immigrant from Ireland who settled on in 1883, part of which Roeland Park now stands.

In 1883 the son of an Irish immigrant, Patrick Jay Hurley, grew up struggling as a miner in the nearby town of Lehigh, Ok. Hurley befriended an Indian boy who later became principal chief of the Choctaws and was allowed to use the family library for his studies.

This work was filed with the Register of Deeds in Marinette County on 10 September 1883 by German immigrant, Frederick John Bartels.

The prophetic words of his Jewish protagonist against the backdrop of the Statue of Liberty allude to Emma Lazarus's famous poem The New Colossus ( 1883 ), which celebrated the statue as a symbol of the United States ' democracy and its identity as an immigrant nation.

Lim Chu Kang Village was founded by Neo Tiew (; born 1883, died 1975 ), a Chinese immigrant who was the sheriff of the village.

The Gretsch Company was founded in 1883 by Friedrich Gretsch, a twenty-seven year old German immigrant recently arrived in the US.

Gretsch was founded in 1883 by Friedrich Gretsch, a young German immigrant.

Seah Eu Chin ( 1805 – 1883 ; also spelt Siah U-chin, Seah Uchin, Seah You Chin ; in Hanyu Pinyin: Shé Yǒujìn ; 佘有进 ) was an immigrant from South China to Singapore, later becoming a successful merchant and leader in the Chinese community.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

It was based on a patent of 1883 by James Cleminson, and was once popular on narrow-gauge rolling stock, e. g. on the Isle of Man and Manx Northern Railways.

Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).

* In 1883, Hugo Kronecker and Samuel James Meltzer studied oesophageal manometry in humans.

* 1813 – James Marion Sims, American physician ( d. 1883 )

* 1837 – James T. Rapier, American politician ( d. 1883 )

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* 1882 – 1883: James Wimshurst of Poplar, London, England

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 ).

North Carolinian James Jefferson Lafayott Glass came to the county in 1883 and signed on with the Sterling Brothers ’ Half Circle S spread.

Frank James was tried from August 20-September 6, 1883.

The county is named for James Proctor Knott, Governor of Kentucky ( 1883 – 1887 ).

In 1883, James Lorimer published " The Institutes of the Law of Nations " in which he explored the idea of a world government establishing the global rule of law.

Her father, Edward Zimmermann ( 1879 – 1977 ), was an accountant with James H. Dunham & Company, a Manhattan wholesale dry-goods company, and her mother, Agnes ( née Gardner ; 1883 – 1974 ), was a school teacher.

Berryville was founded by local settler Blackburn Henderson Berry in 1850 ; his nephew James Henderson Berry would become the fourteenth Governor of Arkansas in 1883.

In 1883 James Wardwell had the town platted, and in 1900 the town was incorporated as Emmett.

* James Proctor Knott ( August 29, 1830 – June 18, 1911 ) was a U. S. Representative from Kentucky and served as the 29th Governor of Kentucky from 1883 to 1887.

* Murray, James, History of Pocomoke City, formerly New Town ( 1883 ).

James N. Taylor, whom, according to the 1880 census was born in Virginia, served as postmaster from 1878 to at least 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.

The land was later purchased by Saint Paul magnate James J. Hill in 1883 and expanded into a breeding and hobby farm.

Verndale's most famous citizen, General Lesley James McNair, was born on May 25, 1883, in Verndale, then a farming and mercantile community of 500.

Parks was born to James and Mary Leach ( Ferguson ) Parks on May 29, 1883 in Denver, Colorado.

* James Maxwell ( cricketer ), ( 1883 – 1967 )