* 1883 – Scott Nearing, American writer and educator ( d. 1983 )

* 1883 – Pauline Frederick, American actress ( d. 1938 )

* 1883 – Marion Lorne, American actress ( d. 1968 )

* 1883 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress ( d. 1961 )

* 1883 – Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general ( d. 1953 )

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 ).

* 1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player ( d. 1938 )

The differences between the more modern and traditional branches of American Judaism came to a head in 1883, at the " Trefa Banquet " at the Highland House entertainment pavilion, which was at the top of the Mount Adams Incline – where shellfish and other non-kosher dishes were served at the celebration of the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

In 1883, the standardized system of North American Time Zones was adopted by the general time convention of railway managers in Chicago.

* 1964 – Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1883 )

* 1948 – Frank Benford, American electrical engineer and physicist ( b. 1883 )

* 1883 – Victor McLaglen, English-born American actor ( d. 1959 )

* 1883 – Marcus Hurley, American cyclist ( d. 1941 )

* 1833 – Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American physician ( d. 1883 )

* 1883 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer and archivist ( d. 1950 )

* 1948 – Rebel Oakes, American baseball player and manager ( b. 1883 )

* 1883 – Marguerite Clark, American actress ( d. 1940 )

* 1883 – Hal Chase, American baseball player ( d. 1947 )

* 1812 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, American politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America and 50th Governor of Georgia ( d. 1883 )

The most important American free love journal was Lucifer the Lightbearer ( 1883 – 1907 ) edited by Moses Harman and Lois Waisbrooker but also there existed Ezra Heywood and Angela Heywood's The Word ( 1872 – 1890, 1892 – 1893 ).

* John Anson Ford ( 1883 – 1983 ), American local-level legislator who served on Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for 24 years ( 1934 – 58 ); Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator ( 1940 )

* John Baptiste Ford ( 1811 – 1903 ), American business leader who, in 1883, founded the industrial concern Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company ( renamed PPG Industries in 1968 )

* John Ford House ( 1827 – 1904 ), American legislator who, from 1875 to 1883, served as Democratic representative for Tennessee's 6th congressional district

* 1883 – Arthur L. Newton, American athlete ( d. 1956 )

* 1883 – Frank Verner, American athlete ( d. 1966 )

* 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist ( b. 1883 )

It was discovered in 1874 by Henry John Stephen Smith and introduced by German mathematician Georg Cantor in 1883.

With the help of John Ritty, his brother, he patented it in 1883.

During the 1880s, five foreign editions contained two revelations to John Taylor that were received in 1882 and 1883 ; these revelations " set in order " the priesthood, gave more clarification about the roles of priesthood offices — especially the Seventy — and required Priesthood leaders to live plural marriage in order to qualify to hold their church positions.

* John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough ( 1822 – 1883 ), eldest son of the 6th Duke and paternal grandfather of Winston Churchill

The Favorites of the Emperor Honorius, by John William Waterhouse, 1883.

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

The modern version is based on the game reversi that was invented in 1883 by either of two Englishmen ( each calling the other a fraud ), Lewis Waterman or John W. Mollett ( or perhaps earlier by someone else entirely ), and gained considerable popularity in England at the end of the 19th century.

( December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883 ) was an American physician who was convicted and imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the 1865 assassination of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln.

In 1883 secretary of the Institution John Henry Reynolds reorganised the Institution as a Technical School using the schemes and examinations of the City and Guilds of London Institute.

* April 21 – John Maynard Keynes, British economist ( b. 1883 )

** St. John Greer Ervine, Northern Irish dramatist and author ( b. 1883 )

* 1881 – 1883: John Philip Holland of Liscannor, County Clare, Ireland builts the Fenian Ram submarine for the Fenian Brotherhood.

* 1882 – 1883: John Hopkinson of Manchester, England patents the three-phase electric power system in 1882.

* 1883 – 1886: John Joseph Montgomery of Yuba City, California starts his attempts at early flight.

** John Baptist Purcell, U. S. ( Irish-born ) archbishop ( d. 1883 )

John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed 1883 – 1920.

John Bateman, writing in 1876 or 1883, referred to contemporary Cheshire and Staffordshire landholdings as being in Mercia.

The favorites of Emperor Honorius ( emperor ) | Honorius, by John William Waterhouse ( 1883 )

Henry John Stephen Smith ( 2 November 1826 Dublin, Ireland – 9 February 1883 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England ) was a mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith – Minkowski – Siegel mass formula in number theory.

:— September, changed to Department of State ; Jefferson appointed ; John Jay continues to act as foreign affairs secretary until Jefferson's return from France ; from 1789 to 1883, however, foreign affairs of the United States are largely the responsibility of those wearing the gold braid of U. S. navy officers