1883

Events 
 May 24 – Brooklyn Bridge opens to traffic.

 Births 
 February 7 – Eubie Blake, American musician and composer
 April 5 - Walter Huston, Canadian actor (d. 1950)
 April 7 – Gino Severini Italian painter (d. 1966)
 April 15 – Stanley Bruce, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
 July 29 – Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator

 Deaths 
 March 14 – Karl Marx, German philosopher
 August 23 – Sarah Yorke Jackson, American First Lady

 New books 
 Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi