In the year 1883, Life Magazine is founded in Los Angeles (Jan 4), the first vaudeville theater is opened in Boston, MA (Feb 28), oxygen is liquefied for the first time (Apr 5), after 13 years of construction, the Brooklyn Bridge is opened to traffic (May 24), the world’s first rodeo is held in Pecos, Texas (Jul 4), Krakatoa in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) erupts, killing thousands (Aug 26), the Orient Express begins to run (Oct 4), U.S. and Canadian railroads institute 5 standard continental time zones (Nov 18) - and all these fine people were born:

1883-0106 Kahlil Gibran* poet/ novelist/visual artist - Bsharri, Mount Lebanon, Ottoman Syria (1931/48) 1883-0110 Aleksei Tolstoi* writer/ poet - Pugachyov, Russian Empire (1945/62) 1883-0116 Hugh Oswald Short* pioneering aeronautical engineer - Stanton by Dale, Derbyshire, England (1969/86) 1883-0121 Olav Aukrust* poet/teacher/ popularized the use of Nynorsk as a literary language - Lom, Norway (1929/46) 1883-0127 Séan MacDiarmada* (Sean McDermott) Irish republican political activist and revolutionary leader - Kiltyclogher, County Leitrim, Ireland (1916/33) 1883-0208 Bruno Malmio* teacher/maker of textbooks -Messukylä, GD of Finland (1966/83) 1883-0210 Edith Clarke* pioneering electrical engineer - Howard County, MD USA (1959/76) 1883-0218 Nikos Kazantzakis* writer - Kandiye, Crete, Ottoman Empire (1957/74) 1883-0228 1883-0303 Cyril Burt* educational psychologist/geneticist - Westminster, London, England (1971/88) 1883-0303 Edwin Carewe* (b Jay John Fox) Chickasaw actor/screenwriter/director - Gainesville, TX USA (1940/56) 1883-0304 Julius Fromm* Polish-German chemist/entrepreneur/one of the inventors of the rubber condom - Konin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (1945/62) 1883-0307 Michael Somogyi* Hungarian-American biochemist/to the U.S. at age 23 - Zsámánd, Kingdom of Hungary (1971/88) 1883-0319 Norman Haworth* chemist/N - Chorley, Lancashire, England (1950/67) 1883-0319 Joseph Stilwell* U.S.Army general in Indochina - Palatka, FL USA (1946/63) 1883-0324 Dorothy Campbell* Scottish-American golf player/to the U.S at age 30 - North Berwick, Scotland (1945/61) 1883-0331 1883-0402 Pearl Doles Bell* novelist/film scenarist/radio script writer - St. Joseph, MO USA (1968/84) 1883-0405 Walter Huston* actor/ singer/father of John Huston - Toronto, ON Canada (1950/67) 1883-0411 Leonard Mudie* actor - Cheetham Hill, Lancashire, England (1965/82) 1883-0412 Dally Messenger* rugby player - Balmain, NSW Australia (1959/76) 1883-0415 1883-0418 Martha Wise* (b Hasel) poisoner/ serial killer - Hardscrabble, OH USA (1971/88) 1883-0419 Richard von Mises* mathematician/scientist - Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (1953/70) 1883-0420 1883-0428 Gabrielle Ray* actress/ dancer/singer - Cheadle, Stockport, England (1973/90) 1883-0501 Thomas J. Moore* Irish-American actor/director/to U.S at age 13 - Fordstown Crossroads, County Meath, Ireland (1955/71) 1883-0503 Gizella Torok* (b Kulcsar) emigrated to the U.S. at age 24 - Veszprém, Hungary (1981/98) - Find a Grave 1883-0523 Douglas Fairbanks* actor/ director/producer - Denver, CO USA (1939/56) 1883-0523 Dimitrie Leonida* energy engineer - Fălticeni, Kingdom of Romania (1965/81) 1883-0525 Lesley J. McNair* WW1and WW2 officer - Verndale, MN USA (1944/61) 1883-0526 Peter Kürten* serial killer/ “The Vampire of Düsseldorf” - Mülheim am Rhein, German Empire (1931/48) 1883-0529 Allan Roy Dafoe* obstetrician/ in charge of the Dionne quintuplets - Madoc, ON Canada (1943/60) 1883-0531 Lauri Kristian Relander* politician/2ndP - Kurkijoki, GD of Finland (1942/58) 1883-0624 Victor Francis Hess* physicist/N - Schloss Waldstein, Peggau, Austria-Hungary (1964/81) 1883-0628 Pierre Laval* politician - Chateldon, France (1945/62) 1883-0703 Franz Kafka* writer/novelist - Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (1924/40) 1883-0707 Toivo Kuula* composer/ conductor - Vaasa, GD of Finland (1918/34) 1883-0717 Mauritz Stiller* (b Moshe Stiller) film director/best known for discovering Greta Garbo - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1928/45) 1883-0718 Lev Kamenev* revolutionary/ politician - Russian Empire (1936/53) 1883-0719 Max Fleischer* animator/film producer - Krakow, Austrian Poland (1972/89) 1883-0728 Angela Hitler* elder half-sister of Adolf Hitler - Braunau, Austria-Hungary (1949/66) 1883-0729 Benito Mussolini* dictator - Predappio, Italy (1945/61) 1883-0801 1883-0802 Samuel Duncan Black Sr.* engineer/ entrepreneur/co-founder of Black & Decker - Baltimore, MD USA (1951/67) - Find a Grave 1883-0810 William Van Alen* architect (Chrysler Building) - Brooklyn, NY USA (1954/70) 1883-0819 Coco Chanel* fashion designer - Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France (1971/87) 1883-0819 Leonid Kulik* mineralogist/discoverer of the Tunguska meteorite blast site - Tartu, Estonia, Russian Empire (1942/58) 1883-0820 1883-0831 1883-0901 1883-0919 Mabel Vernon* pacifist/a national leader in the United States suffrage movement - Wilmington, DE USA (1975/91) 1883-0923 Grigory Zinoviev* revolutionary/ politician - Yelizavetgrad, Russian Empire (1936/52) 1883-0930 Doris Mackinnon* zoologist - Aberdeen, Scotland (1956/72) 1883-1002 Karl von Terzaghi* Austrian mechanical engineer/the “father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering” - Prague, Austria-Hungary (1963/80) 1883-1005 Petro Bolbochan* Ukrainian military leader of Romanian origins/helped establish Ukrainian power on Crimea - Yarivka village, Bessarabian Governorate, Russian Empire (1919/35) 1883-1008 Otto Heinrich Warburg* physiologist/N - Freiburg, German Empire (1970/86) 1883-1009 Antti Wihuri* sea captain/ shipowner/philanthropist - Kustavi, GD of Finland (1962/79) 1883-1013 Aarne Orjatsalo* actor/theater manager/revolutionary/to U.S. at age 40 - Simo, Lapland, GD of Finland (1941/57) 1883-1017 A. S. Neill* educator/author - Forfar, Scotland (1973/89) 1883-1021 D. S. Senanayake* statesman/1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka - Mirigama, British Ceylon (1952/68) 1883-1031 Anthony Wilding* tennis player/soldier - Christchurch, New Zealand (1915/31) 1883-1104 Nikolaos Plastiras* general/ politician/PM - Karditsa, Kingdom of Greece (1953/69) 1883-1106 Jaan Koort* Estonian sculptor/painter/ceramicist - Tartu, Estonia, Russian Empire (1935/51) 1883-1108 1883-1109 Mauritz Björnström-Steffansson* Swedish-American businessman/Titanic survivor - Österfärnebo, Sweden (1962/78) 1883-1120 1883-1125 Merrill C. Meigs* newspaper publisher/aviation promoter - Poweshiek County, IA USA (1968/84) 1883-1201 1883-1203 Anton Webern* composer/conductor - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1945/61) 1883-1206 Margaret Morse Nice* (b Morse) ornithologist/ ethologist/child psychologist - Amherst, MA USA (1974/90) 1883-1209 Joseph Pilates* physical culturist/developer of Pilates - Mönchengladbach, Germany (1967/83) 1883-1214 Morihei Ueshiba* martial artist/founder of aikido - Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan (1969/85) 1883-1226 Maurice Utrillo* painter - Paris, France (1955/71) 1883-1229 Forrest Taylor* actor - Bloomington, IL USA (1965/81) 1883-0 1883-0 1883-0 Updated 2025-0215 Helsinki Search for another year here