About the day » Thursday December 6, 1883Calender converter

• Anna Catharina Maria Melsen, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant,Netherlands († 1939)
• Akke de Wit, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 1888)
• Adriana van Oort, Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1893)
• Adolph Jacobus de Jager, Uniondale, Cape Colony, South Africa († 1946)
• Alberta Jacoba Van Themaat Ver Loren, Warnsveld, Gelderland, Netherland († 1955)
• Anna Maria Cox, Parkham, Tasmania, Australia († 1959)
• alice joséphine SCLICQ, Wasmes (Belgium) Hainaut († 1918)
• Adriana Nicola van der Jagt, Ter Aar (Langeraar) († 1893)
• Abraham Luijendijk, abbenbroek (zuid holland) († 1884)
• Abraham Jacobus Stoppels, Serooskerke, Zeeland, NL († 1977)

• Antonia van Vuuren (0), lopik
• de Bruijn, Maasland
• Adelaide Deruytere (27), Gullegem, België
• Aart van BRUGGEN (66), Strijen
• Adriaan Cornelis Leeuwis (0), Gouda (Zuid-Holland)
• Antonius Franciscus Pallada (1), Wijchen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arend van der Sloot (43), Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• ... GOMMERS (0)
• Barend van der Meer (72), Alkemade, Nederland
• Aaltje Sakes Nijenhuis (88), Sloten

• 1876 » Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company († 1932)
• 1878 » Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Mexican politician († 1968)
• 1882 » Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer († 1954)
• 1884 » Cornelia Meigs, American author, playwright, and academic († 1973)
• 1886 » Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, author, and poet († 1918)
• 1887 » Joseph Lamb, American pianist and composer († 1960)
• 1887 » Lynn Fontanne, British actress († 1983)
• 1888 » Will Hay, English actor, director, and screenwriter († 1949)
• 1890 » Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author († 1946)
• 1890 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic († 1951)

• 1855 » William John Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
• 1867 » Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
• 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1878 » Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1879 » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814)
• 1882 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)
• 1882 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
• 1892 » Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
• 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)

• 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.
• June 16 » The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
• August 17 » The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
• August 25 » France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
• October 22 » The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.

The temperature on December 6, 1883 was about -1.6 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.