* Tex Austin ( 1886 – 1938 ), American rodeo promoter

* Austin Osman Spare ( 1886 – 1956 ), English artist and magician

* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

* 1886 – Athenagoras I, Greek religious leader, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )

* 1886 – Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad state ( d. 1967 )

* 1886 – Walter Edward Dandy, American neurosurgeon and scientist ( d. 1946 )

* 1823 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright ( d. 1886 )

* 1886 – Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist ( d. 1979 )

* 1886 – Eric Coates, English composer and viola player ( d. 1957 )

* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )

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 ).

* 1886 – Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet ( d. 1964 )

Prominent leaders include co-founders Lucien Febvre ( 1878 – 1956 ) and Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ).

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 – Ernst Thälmann, German politician ( d. 1944 )

He undertook a history of the Bábí religion through publication of A Traveller's Narrative ( Makála-i-Shakhsí Sayyáh ) in 1886, later translated and published in translation in 1891 through Cambridge University by the agency of Edward Granville Browne who described ` Abdu ' l-Bahá as:

* 1886 J. Edward Simmons

The manuscript is known today only from facsimile copies, twenty four of which were made in 1886 by Edward Rożnowski, Wybicki's grandson, who donated them to Polish libraries.

* 1886 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1972 )

* 1886 – Edward Weston, American photographer ( d. 1958 )

* 1886 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor ( d. 1970 )

* May 15 – Father Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-born priest and founder of Boys Town ( b. 1886 )

** Edward Sheldon, American playwright ( b. 1886 )

* May 4 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1886 )

They lived with his maternal grandparents at 2129 Ida Place ( now Ward Place ), NW in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D. C. His father, James Edward Ellington, was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina on April 15, 1879 and moved to Washington, D. C. in 1886 with his parents.

During Queen Victoria's widowhood, Edward pioneered the idea of royal public appearances as we understand them today — for example, opening Thames Embankment in 1871, Mersey Tunnel in 1886, and Tower Bridge in 1894.

* Waite, Arthur Edward, Israfel: Letters, Visions and Poems, London: Allen, 1886.

* Edward James Salisbury ( 1886 – 1978 ), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from 1943 to 1956 ; cousin of Frank O. Salisbury

The local Aboriginal group is the Dundu: ra / Doondora people the inhabitants of the Hervey Bay ( Dundu: ra Bay ) region which stretched from the Mary River to the Burnett River who were part of the Wahr Language Group of the Kabi nation ( Edward Curr 1886 ).

In 1886 the canal was sold to a miller called Edward Press for £ 600, but the principal clerk absconded with most of the money and it was never recovered.

Edward " Kid " Ory ( December 25, 1886 – January 23, 1973 ) was a jazz trombonist and bandleader.

His efforts on behalf of the area were rewarded in 1886, when Congressman Edward K. Valentine secured a post office for the settlement, naming it the Beemer Post Office.

* Morris, Edward Ellis. The Early Hanoverians, London, 1886.

* AC Ewald, Life and Times of Prince Charles Edward ( 1886 ).

*; and the articles there on Francis Fry ( 1803 – 1886 ), Edmund Fry ( 1754 – 1835 ), Joseph Storrs Fry ( 1826 – 1913 ), Edward Fry ( 1827 – 1918 ), and Sophia Fry née Pease.

In 1886, its partners – Joseph Newton Pew, Philip Pisano and Edward O. Emerson – decided to expand their gas business with a stake in the new oil discoveries in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Edward Everett Horton ( March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970 ) was an American character actor.

The Nigger is a play by American playwright Edward Sheldon ( 1886 – 1946 ).

* 1886 – Margaret Woodrow Wilson, American daughter of Woodrow Wilson ( d. 1944 )

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

* 1807 – David Rice Atchison, American politician ( d. 1886 )

* 1886 – Ed Lafitte, American baseball player ( d. 1971 )

In 1886, the American Association changed the rules so that six balls instead of seven were required for a walk ; however, the National League changed the rules so that seven balls were required for a walk instead of six.

The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company and after the 1986 merger with Sperry Univac was renamed as Unisys.

In 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).

CBI's Burroughs Corporation Records includes over 100, 000 photographs depicting the entire visual history of Burroughs from its origin as the American Arithmometer Corporation in 1886 to its merger with the Sperry Corporation to form the Unisys Corporation in 1986.

* 1886 – Joyce Kilmer, American poet ( d. 1918 )

* 1886 – Rose Wilder Lane, American writer and reporter ( d. 1968 )

* 1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer ( d. 1949 )

* 1886 – Rex Stout, American author ( d. 1975 )

* 1886 – Clarence Birdseye, American businessman ( d. 1956 )

* 1886 – Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player ( d. 1974 )

* 1952 – Kenneth Edwards, American golfer ( b. 1886 )

* 1957 – Eric Coates, English-born American composer ( b. 1886 )

* 1969 – Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral ( b. 1886 )

* 1824 – Winfield Scott Hancock, American Civil War general ( d. 1886 )

* 1968 – Lena Blackburne, American baseball player and manager ( b. 1886 )

* 1804 – John Deere, American manufacturer ( Deere & Company ) ( d. 1886 )

* 1967 – Albert Orsborn, American Salvation Army general ( b. 1886 )

* 1886 – Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic ( d. 1963 )