page_title: 1883
section_title: January–February
hierarchical_section_title: 1883 / Births / January–February
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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: January 1
  Alberto Gerchunoff, Argentine writer (d. 1949)
  Ichirō Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1959)
  January 3 – Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967)
  January 4 – Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch plant pathologist (d. 1961)
  January 5 – Döme Sztójay, prime minister of Hungary (d. 1946)
  January 6 – Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet, painter and novelist (d. 1931)
  January 10
  Francis X. Bushman, American screen actor (d. 1966)
  Hubert Latham, pioneer French aviator of the pre-World War I era (d. 1912)
  Florence Reed, American actress (d. 1967)
  Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Russian writer (d. 1945)
  January 16 – Hugh Oswald Short, British aviation pioneer and aircraft builder, youngest of the Short Brothers (d. 1969)
  January 19 – Waite Phillips, American businessman, philanthropist (d. 1964)
  January 20
  Enoch L. Johnson, American political boss, racketeer (d. 1968)
  Bertram Ramsay, British admiral (d. 1945)
  January 21 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929)
  January 30 – Eddie Collins, American vaudeville-veteran comic (d. 1940)
  February 8 – Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Austrian economist (d. 1950)
  February 9 – Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot, German architect, interior designer and designer (d. 1960)
  February 15 – Sax Rohmer, English author (d. 1959)
  February 16 – Elizabeth Craig, British writer (d. 1980)
  February 18 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (d. 1957)
  February 22
  Abe Attell, American boxer (d. 1970)
  Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (d. 1940)
  February 23 – Karl Jaspers, German philosopher (d. 1969)
  February 28 – Gheorghe Argeșanu, Romanian general and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1940)
caption: Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi
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