About the day » Monday May 21, 1883Calender converter

• Adriana de Groot, Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1959)
• Abeltje Andries Hoekstra, St. Annaparochie
• Adrianus Jonkers, Lopik († 1938)
• - van der Helm, 's-Gravenhage († 1883)
• Anna Voskuijl, Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Abel Arend de Boer, Waarden (Grijpskerk) († 1950)
• Albert Willem Bartels, Ellecom (Rheden)
• Amelia Martinez, Piedras Negras, Coahuila, México († 1902)
• Abraham Fiersen, Sluis, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alida Bogaert, Klerken

• Thomas Jacobs Lawerman (66), Dantumadeel
• Aart van Lith (65), Uitgeest
• Anthony Coenraad Flissinger (51), Soerabaja, Indie
• Ann Richards (54), st mary's, isles of scilly
• Alberdina Cornelis Strijker (24), Zwartsluis, Nederland
• Adrianus Spijkers (0), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Anna Margretha Klein (78), Bingenheim, Duitsland
• Albert Bellert (27), Apeldoorn (Broekland)
• Alberdina Strijker (24), zwartssluis (overijssel)
• adrianus MOERMAN (62), rotterdam

• 1873 » Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic († 1941)
• 1878 » Glenn Curtiss, American cyclist and engineer († 1930)
• 1880 » Tudor Arghezi, Romanian journalist, author, and poet († 1967)
• 1884 » Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and publisher († 1920)
• 1885 » Princess Sophie of Albania, (Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg) († 1936)
• 1893 » Arthur Carr, English cricketer († 1963)
• 1893 » Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant († 1969)
• 1895 » Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas († 1970)
• 1898 » Armand Hammer, American physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum († 1990)
• 1898 » Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge († 1967)

• 1858 » José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (b. 1783)
• 1862 » John Drew, Irish-American actor and manager (b. 1827)
• 1879 » Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
• 1894 » Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 » August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
• 1895 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Wilhelmina
9. Hendrika
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Jacoba
13. Neeltje
14. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
16. Antje

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• January 16 » The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is enacted by Congress.
• May 24 » The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
• May 30 » In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.
• August 21 » An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
• August 25 » France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
• September 8 » The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.

The temperature on May 21, 1883 was about 10.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.