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1883 births
- Benito MussoliniBenito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on the 29th of July 1883 in Dovia di Predappio, a small town in the province of Forlì.
- Clement AttleeClement Richard Attlee was born on the 3rd of January 1883 in Putney, Surrey. He grew up in a two-storey villa with a large garden and tennis court.
- Franz KafkaFranz Kafka entered the world on the 3rd of July 1883 in a cramped apartment near the Old Town Square of Prague. His father Hermann ran a haberdashery store…
- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl WavellArchibald Percival Wavell was born on the 5th of May 1883 to Archibald Graham Wavell and Lillie Wavell. His father later became a major-general in the…
- Joseph SchumpeterJoseph Alois Schumpeter arrived in the world on the 8th of February 1883 within the town of Triesch. This location sat inside Habsburg Moravia before…
- Karl JaspersKarl Theodor Jaspers was born on the 23rd of February 1883 in Oldenburg. His father worked as a jurist while his mother came from a local farming community.
- Andrey VyshinskyAndrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky was born in Odessa into a Polish Catholic family. His father, Yanuary Vyshinsky, worked as an experienced inspector for the…
- Vinayak Damodar SavarkarVinayak Damodar Savarkar began his political activities as a high school student in 1895. He led fellow students in an attack on the village mosque following…
- H. J. RoseHerbert Jennings Rose was born on the 5th of May 1883 in Orillia, Ontario. His family traced their roots back to Scotland before settling in Canada.
- José Ortega y GassetJosé Ortega y Gasset was born on the 9th of May 1883 in Madrid. His father directed the newspaper El Imparcial, which belonged to his mother Dolores Gasset's…
- John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes entered the world on the 5th of June 1883 in Cambridge, England. His father John Neville Keynes worked as an economist and lecturer at…