About the day » Sunday October 7, 1883Calender converter

• Jan Willem Boer, Aarlanderveen
• Anna Amelia Corley, West End, Bedford County, Pennsylvania († 1917)
• Abram Eigenhuis, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Baars, Rhenen,Utrecht,Nederland
• Adriana Jasperse, Arnemuiden, Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1961)
• Anna Emelander, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1969)
• Aaltje van Tongeren, Wijngaarden († 1928)
• Marten Stienstra, Oosthem († 1954)
• Alma Gillie Sandifer († 1954)
• Dirk Adrichem, Wijk aan Zee en Duin († 1964)

• AGNES JOHANNA WINTER (15), Nieuwe Pekela
• Adriaantje Plaisier (72), IJsselmonde, Nederland
• Adrianus Schuurmans (0), Heeswijk
• Anna Catharina Fabrie - Fabry (65), Alken
• Anthonij van der Werf (87), Scherpenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antje Staal (24), Onstwedde (Groningen)
• Anne Magee or McGee (81), Tuscarawas, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Antoni Pieterse van der Werf (88), Scherpenisse
• Anna Maria Veltrop (7), Breese, Clinton, Illinois, United States
• Adriana Henrica BUIJS (71), Breda, 3379, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1876 » Louis Tancred, South African cricketer († 1934)
• 1879 » Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist and poet († 1915)
• 1881 » Mikhail Drozdovsky, Ukrainian-Russian general († 1918)
• 1884 » Harold Geiger, American lieutenant and pilot († 1927)
• 1885 » Claud Ashton Jones, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient († 1948)
• 1885 » Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate († 1962)
• 1887 » Jack Russell, English cricketer and coach († 1961)
• 1888 » Edna Meade Colson, African American educator and activist († 1985)
• 1888 » Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States († 1965)
• 1889 » Robert Z. Leonard, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1968)

• 1849 » Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (b. 1809)
• 1884 » Bernard Petitjean, French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (b. 1829)
• 1894 » Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
• 1904 » Isabella Bird, English historian and explorer (b. 1831)
• 1906 » Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
• 1911 » John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist and physician (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
• 1925 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1926 » Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)

• 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.
• February 23 » Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
• May 27 » Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
• August 27 » Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
• October 20 » Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
• October 22 » Mödling and Hinterbrühl Tram, Vienna, Austria, first electric tram powered by overhead wire.
• November 30 » The style of western calendar, Common Era is conveyed to Joseon (Early-Modern Korean kingdom]].

The temperature on October 7, 1883 was about 12.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.