Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1886 [edit] January–March [edit] April–June [edit] July–September [edit] October–December [edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] January–June - January 2 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian-born actress (d. 1938)
- January 7 – Amedeo Maiuri, Neapolitan archaeologist (d. 1963)
- January 11 – Chester Conklin, American actor (d. 1971)
- January 14 – Hugh Lofting, English-born author (d. 1947)
- January 18 – Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (d. 1962)
- January 25 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
- January 28 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976)
- February 2 – Frank Lloyd, English-born film director, scriptwriter and producer (d. 1960)
- February 8 – Charles Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970)
- February 27 – Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)
- March 1 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist and poet (d. 1980)
- March 2 – Willis O'Brien, American stop motion animator (d. 1962)
- March 3 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)
- March 7 – Jacques Majorelle, French painter (d. 1962)
- March 8 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)
- March 11 – Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Polish politician, Marshal of Poland (d. 1941)
- March 15 – Sergei Kirov, Soviet revolutionary (d. 1934)
- March 18
- March 20 – Grace Brown, American murder victim whose story became a famous court case, (d. 1906)
- March 24 – Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
- March 25 – Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople (d. 1972)
- March 27 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)
- April 8 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer (d. 1967)
- April 14 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d. 1956)
- April 15 – Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)
- April 16 – Ernst Thälmann, German Communist Leader (d. 1944)
- April 25 – Marie Brémont, the last surviving person documented as born in 1886 (d. 2001)
- April 26 – Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
- May 2 – Gottfried Benn, German poet (d. 1956)
- May 3 – Marcel Dupré, French composer (d. 1971)
- May 10
- May 17 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
- May 18 – Ture Nerman, Swedish communist leader (d. 1969)
- May 20 – John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman (d. 1971)
- May 26 – Al Jolson, American entertainer (d. 1950)
- June 7 – Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
- June 9 – Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor (d. 1965)
- June 18 – George Mallory, English climber (d. 1924)
- June 24 – George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d. 1949)
- June 25 – Henry "Hap" Arnold, American Five-Star General, U.S. Army, aviation pioneer (d. 1950)
- June 29 – Robert Schuman, German-French politician, a founding father of the European Union (d. 1963)
[edit] July–December - July 3 – Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and ambassador (d. 1969)
- July 5 – Willem Drees, Dutch Politician, Prime Minister and Centenarian (d. 1988)
- July 12 – Jean Hersholt, Danish-born actor (d. 1956)
- July 23 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
- July 24 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese writer (d. 1965)
- July 25 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
- August 2 – John A.D. McCurdy, aviation pioneer & Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1961)
- August 27
- September 1 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer (d. 1957)
- September 4 – Albert Orsborn, the 6th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967)
- September 5 – Nell Brinkley, American illustrator and comic artist (d. 1944)
- September 8 – Siegfried Sassoon, British poet (d. 1967)
- September 13 – Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- September 14 – Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (d. 1948)
- September 16 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (d. 1966)
- September 20 – Charles Williams, British author (d. 1945)
- September 24
- September 26 – Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)
- September 28 – Alice Hollister, American silent film actress (d. 1973)
- October 3 – Henri Alban-Fournier, French author of Le Grand Meaulnes
- October 6 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
- October 16 – David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
- October 17 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (d. 1985)
- October 21 – Eugene Ely, pioneer aviator, (d. 1911)
- October 26 – Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett, newspaper columnist for The Chicago Tribune and expert on Sherlock Holmes, born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1974
- October 30 – Zoë Akins, American playwright, poet, and author (d. 1958)
- November 1 – Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d. 1951)
- November 6 – André Marty, French Communist Party leader (d. 1956)
- November 9 – Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
- November 12 – Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, Spanish prince and military aviator (d. 1975)
- November 15 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
- November 20 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1982)
- November 26 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, editor (d. 1973)
- December 3 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
- December 5 – Rose Wilder Lane, American author (d. 1968)
- December 8 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)
- December 12 – Owen Moore, Irish actor (d. 1939)
- December 18 – Ty Cobb, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1961)
- December 25 – Kid Ory, American jazz musician (d. 1973)
- December 30 – Austin Osman Spare, English artist and magician
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 17 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (born 1834)
- January 18 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (born 1819)
- January 25 – Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, Chilean historian (born 1831)
- January 26 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (born 1807)
- February 18 – Dave Rudabaugh, American outlaw and gunfighter (born 1854)
- February 24 – Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (born 1823)
- March 17 – Pierre-Jules Hetzel, French editor and publisher (born 1814)
- April 27 – Henry Hobson Richardson, prominent American architect (born 1838)
- May 9 – Facundo Bacardí, Cuban rum manufacturer (born 1814)
- May 15 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (born 1830)
- May 17 – John Deere, American inventor (born 1804)
- June 13 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria (born 1845)
[edit] July–December - July 1 – Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German geologist (born 1806)
- July 4 – Poundmaker, Aboriginal Canadian leader, born ca. (b. ca. 1842)
- July 31 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (born 1811)
- August 9 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (born 1810)
- August 11 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (born 1843)
- August 16 – Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Indian spiritual figure (born 1836)
- August 30 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (born 1836)
- September 3 – William W. Snow, American politician (born 1812)
- September 14 – Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, American land speculator (born 1802)
- October 8 – Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (born 1819)
- November 18 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (born 1829)
- November 20 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (born 1859)
- December 8 – William Fraser Tolmie, Scottish-Canadian scientist and politician (born 1812)
- date unknown – Andrew Nicholl, Northern Irish painter (born 1804)
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