Contents

• Incumbents
• Federal government
• Governors
• Lieutenant governors
• Events
• January–March
• April–June
• July–September
• October–December
• Undated
• Ongoing
• Sport
• Births
• Deaths
• See also
• External links

← 1882 1881 1880 1883 in the United States → 1884 1885 1886
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	History of the United States (1865–1918) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860-1899) List of years in the United States

Events from the year 1883 in the United States.

Incumbents

Events

Sport

• September 27 – The Boston Red Stockings clinch their First National League pennant with a 4–1 win over the Cleveland Blues.

Births

• January 10
  • Francis X. Bushman, screen actor (died 1966)
  • Florence Reed, actress (died 1967)
• January 19 – Waite Phillips, businessman and philanthropist (died 1964)
• January 20 – Enoch L. Johnson, political boss and racketeer (died 1968)
• January 25 – Homer Bone, U.S. Senator from Washington from 1933 to 1944 (died 1970)
• January 30 – Eddie Collins, vaudeville-veteran comic (died 1940)
• March 3 – Edwin Carewe, Native American director (died 1940)
• March 19 – Joseph Stilwell, general (died 1946)
• April 2 – Pearl Doles Bell, film scenarist, novelist and editor (died 1968)
• April 3 – Walter Walker, U.S. Senator from Colorado in 1932 (died 1956)
• April 12 – Imogen Cunningham, photographer (died 1976)
• May 22 – Jane Grey, actress (died 1944)
• May 23 – Douglas Fairbanks, swashbuckling silent film actor (died 1939)
• June 7 – Sylvanus Morley, Mayanist (died 1948)
• June 21 – Richard Remer, athlete (died 1973)
• June 25 – Paul Bartholomew, architect (died 1973)
• June 26 – Mary van Kleeck, labor activist (died 1972)
• July 4 – Rube Goldberg, cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor (died 1970)
• July 24 – Nelle Wilson Reagan, mother of United States President Ronald Reagan (d. 1962)
• August 18 – Sidney Hatch, athlete (died 1966)
• September 5 – Mel Sheppard, athlete (died 1942)
• September 19 – Mabel Vernon, suffragist (died 1975)
• November 8 – Charles Demuth, painter (died 1935)
• November 25 – Merrill C. Meigs, newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (died 1968)
• November 26 – Belle da Costa Greene, librarian (died 1950)
• December 19 – Barry Byrne, architect (died 1967)
• December 22 – Edna Goodrich, actress (died 1972)
• December 31 – Leo Otis Colbert, admiral and engineer, director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (died 1968)

Deaths

• January 10 – Samuel Mudd, physician imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (born 1833)
• January 12 – Clark Mills, sculptor (born 1810)
• January 13 – Webster Wagner, inventor, manufacturer and politician (born 1817)
• February 16 – Stephen P. Hempstead, 2nd Governor of Iowa from 1850 to 1854 (born 1812)
• March 4 – Alexander H. Stephens, only vice president of the Confederate States of America (born 1812)
• March 15 – Henry C. Wayne, U.S. Army officer, Confederate brigadier general (born 1815)
• March 26 – Joseph Saberton, U.S. Army private, Union Army (born 1830)
• March 28 – Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, general and railroad executive (born 1807)
• April 4 – Peter Cooper, industrialist, inventor, philanthropist and candidate for President of the U.S. (born 1791)
• April 6 – Benjamin Wright Raymond, politician, twice mayor of Chicago (born 1801)
• April 28 – William M. Browne, politician and newsman, Acting Confederate States Secretary of State in 1862 (born 1823 in Ireland)
• May 15 – Josiah Gorgas, Northern-born Confederate general (born 1818)
• June 14
  • Charles Timothy Brooks, poet and translator (born 1813)
  • Eugene Casserly, U.S. Senator from California from 1869 to 1873 (born 1820)
• July 15 – General Tom Thumb, dwarf performer (born 1838)
• July 22 – Edward Ord, engineer and U.S. Army officer who saw action in the Seminole War, the Indian Wars and the American Civil War (born 1818)
• July 23 – Ginery Twichell, transportation manager and politician (born 1811)
• July 24 – Thomas Swann, politician and president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1847 to 1853 (born 1809)
• July 27 – Montgomery Blair, politician and lawyer (born 1813)
• September 16 – Junius Brutus Booth Jr., actor and theatre manager (born 1821)
• October 4 – Henry Farnam, surveyor, railroad president and philanthropist (born 1809)
• October 22 – Thomas Mayne Reid, novelist (born 1818 in Ireland)
• November 20 – Augustus C. Dodge, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1848 to 1855 (born 1812)
• November 24 – Albert Fitch Bellows, landscape painter (born 1829)
• November 26 – Sojourner Truth, African American abolitionist and women's rights activist (born c. 1797)
• December 27 – Andrew A. Humphreys, general and civil engineer (born 1810)
• Mary S. B. Shindler, poet (born 1810)

See also

• Timeline of United States history (1860–1899)

External links

• Media related to 1883 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons