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* 1886 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player ( d. 1935 )
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* 1886 – Athenagoras I, Greek religious leader, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )
After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).
Cofounder Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.
Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.
1886 and Aron
Aron Nimzowitsch ( or Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich, or Aaron Nimzovich ) (, ; born Aron Niemzowitsch ) ( 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935 ) was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess master and a very influential chess writer.
After 2. d4, there are two distinctive main lines: 2 ... e5, favored by British grandmaster Tony Miles, and 2 ... d5, introduced and often played by the influential Latvian-Danish player and writer Aron Nimzowitsch ( 1886 – 1935 ).
Larsen was inspired by the example of the great Latvian-Danish player and theoretician Aron Nimzowitsch ( 1886 – 1935 ), who often played 1. Nf3 followed by 2. b3, which is sometimes called the Nimzowitsch – Larsen Attack.
1886 and chess
Wilhelm ( later William ) Steinitz ( Prague, May 17, 1836 – August 12, 1900 ) was an Austrian and then American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion from 1886 to 1894.
Macclesfield Chess Club is one of the oldest chess clubs in the country having been founded in 1886.
In the second half of the 19th century, modern chess tournament play began, and the first world Chess Championship was held in 1886.
1886 and player
* 1886 – Henry Jamison Handy, American breaststroke swimmer, water polo player and filmmaker ( d. 1983 )
* Willie Smith ( billiards player ) ( 1886 – 1982 ), English professional player of snooker and English billiards
* William Smith ( field hockey ) ( 1886 – 1937 ), British field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics
* Lena Blackburne ( 1886 – 1968 ), major league baseball player and manager best known for his discovery of a mud in a tributary of the Delaware River near Palmyra which is still used to rub down baseballs allowing pitchers to gain better control over the ball.
The record for most runs scored by a player in a single game is 7, set by Guy Hecker of the American Association's Louisville Colonels on August 15, 1886.
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