page_title: 1883
section_title: May–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1883 / Births / May–June
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Eleazar López Contreras
context_page_description: 1883 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1883rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 883rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1883, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: May 1 – Tom Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1955)
  May 5
  Eleazar López Contreras, 32nd President of Venezuela (d. 1973)
  Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, British field marshal (d. 1950)
  May 9 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
  May 10 – Eugen Leviné, Communist leader of the Munich Soviet Republic (d. 1919)
  May 14 – Charlie Seeling, New Zealand-born rugby player (d. 1956)
  May 16
  Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, statesman, 3rd President of Turkey (d. 1986)
  Solomone Ula Ata, Prime Minister of Tonga (d. 1950)
  May 18
  Walter Gropius, German architect (d. 1969)
  Hasui Kawase, Japanese painter, printmaker (d. 1957)
  Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal, 16th President of Brazil (d. 1974)
  May 19 – George Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley, British peer (d. 1968)
  May 22 – Jane Grey, American actress (d. 1944)
  May 23
  Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
  Ferenc Talányi, Slovene writer, partisan, and painter (d. 1959)
  May 24 – Elsa Maxwell, American gossip columnist, international party giver (d. 1963)
  May 25 – Lesley J. McNair, American general (d. 1944)
  May 27 – Jessie Arms Botke, American artist (d. 1971)
  May 28 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian pro-independence activist, Hindu nationalist (d. 1966)
  May 31 – Lauri Kristian Relander, President of Finland (d. 1942)
  June 5 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
  June 7 – Sylvanus G. Morley, American scholar, World War I spy (d. 1948)
  June 11 – Aubrey Fitch, American admiral (d. 1978)
  June 18 – Mary Alden, American stage, screen actress (d. 1946)
  June 20 – Royal E. Ingersoll, American admiral (d. 1976)
  June 21
  Richard Remer, American athlete (d. 1973)
  Lluís Companys, President of Catalonia (d. 1940)
  June 24 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
  June 28 – Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
  June 29 – Lothrop Stoddard, American eugenicist, radical scientific racist (d. 1950)
caption: Eleazar López Contreras
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