* 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 – Edward Ballantine, American composer ( d. 1971 )

* 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 Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist ( d. 1956 )

* 1886 – Ernst May, German architect ( d. 1970 )

* 1886 – Ernst A. Lehmann, German zeppelin captain ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Ernst A. Lehmann, German zeppelin captain ( b. 1886 )

* April 19 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist ( b. 1886 )

Ernst Thälmann ( 16 April 1886 – 18 August 1944 ) was the leader of the Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ) during much of the Weimar Republic.

The genus name Paphiopedilum was established by Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer in 1886 ; it is derived from Paphos ( a city on Cyprus, a place sacred to Aphrodite.

Between the years of 1886 and 1888 Brandes was engaged in a relationship with the Swedish authoress Victoria Benedictsson, who wrote Penningar and Fru Marianne under the male pseudonym Ernst Ahlgren.

* Ernst Thälmann ( 1886 – 1944 ) ( memorial, not a grave )

His eldest son, Eilhard Ernst Gustav, born at Berlin on August 1, 1852, became professor of physics at Erlangen in 1886, and his younger son, Alfred, born at Berlin on July 18, 1856, was appointed to the extraordinary professorship of Egyptology at Bonn in 1892.

You may be looking for Ernst Robert Curtius ( 1886 – 1956 ).

In August 1832 he married Fanny Sommer ; they had two children, Ernst Alfred Christian von Stockmar ( 1823 – 1886 ), and Carl August von Stockmar ( 1836 – 1909 ).

* Ernst Robert Curtius ( 1886 – 1956 )

* Ernst Methfessel ( 1811 – 1886 ), composer

Christian Ernst Günther ( 1886, Stockholm – 1966 ) was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs in the National Unity Government that was formed as a consequence of the Soviet attack on Finland in November, 1939, and would remain in function until World War II had ended in 1945.

* Der Dom zu Mainz-Geschichte und Beschreibung des Baues und seiner Wiederherstellung, Friedrich Schneider, Publishers Ernst and Korn, Berlin, 1886

A Bibliographische Übersicht über Waitz's Werke was published by Ernst Steindorff at Göttingen in 1886.

* Ernst May ( 1886 – 1970 ), architect and city planner ( New Frankfurt )

Ernst May ( 27 July 1886, Frankfurt am Main — 11 September 1970, Hamburg ) was a German architect and city planner.

A student of Ernst Haeckel, he was graduated from the University of Jena in 1885 with a Ph. D. From 1886 on, he worked as an instructor at the University of Strasbourg.

Ernst Robert Curtius ( April 14, 1886 – April 19, 1956 ) was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance language literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter, translated in English as European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.

Ernst Zinner ( 2 February 1886, Goldberg, Silesia – 30 August 1970 ) was a German astronomer and noted historian of astronomy.

The first complete synthesis of an alkaloid was achieved in 1886 by the German chemist Albert Ladenburg.

* 1886 – Hugo Ball, German author and poet ( d. 1927 )

* 1826 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet ( d. 1886 )

The authorities made efforts to Germanize the region, particularly after the founding of Germany in 1871, and from 1886 onwards the Prussian Settlement Commission was active in increasing German land ownership in formerly Polish areas.

In a foreword to his essay Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy ( 1886 ), three years after Marx's death, Engels claimed confidently that " In the meantime, the Marxist world outlook has found representatives far beyond the boundaries of Germany and Europe and in all the literary languages of the world.

* 1966 – Jean Arp, German artist and poet ( b. 1886 )

* 1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor ( d. 1954 )

* 1956 – Gottfried Benn, German poet ( b. 1886 )

* 1886 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist ( d. 1976 )

* 1886 – Gottfried Benn, German author ( d. 1956 )

* 1948 – Theodor Morell, German nazi physician ( b. 1886 )

* 1976 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist ( b. 1886 )

However, in 1924, Czech physicist August Žáček ( 1886 – 1961 ) and German physicist Erich Habann ( 1892 – 1968 ) independently discovered that the magnetron could generate waves of 100 megahertz to 1 gigahertz.

* 1886 – German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for " Effi Briest ", a classic work of German literature.

* 1886 – Günther Dyhrenfurth, German geologist, and mountineer ( d. 1975 )

* 1886 – Mary Wigman, German dancer and choreographer ( d. 1973 )

Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich ( December 11, 1806 – July 1, 1886 ) was a German mineralogist and geologist.

As early as 1886, German physicist Heinrich Hertz showed that radio waves could be reflected from solid objects.

Missionary activity then started at the mid 19th century and European colonial ambitions led to the establishment of a German Protectorate over the Northern Solomons, following an Anglo-German Treaty of 1886.

* 1886 – Amelie Beese, German pilot and sculptor ( d. 1925 )