* 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 Thälmann, German politician ( d. 1944 )

Luther Judson Glenn ( November 26, 1818June 9, 1886 ) was a prominent Georgia lawyer, politician, Confederate officer during the American Civil War, and antebellum Mayor of Atlanta.

Glenn L. Martin was born in Macksburg, Iowa, on January 17, 1886 to Minta Martin and her husband.

* Glenn L. Martin ( 1886 – 1955 ), American aviation pioneer

* April 27 – Arthur L. Bristol, American admiral ( b. 1886 )

Although Zola and Cézanne were friends from childhood, they broke in later life over Zola's fictionalized depiction of Cézanne and the Bohemian life of painters in his novel L ' Œuvre ( The Masterpiece, 1886 ).

** L ' Œuvre ( 1886 )

In 1886 it officially became ' Waterloo Station ', reflecting long-standing common usage, even in some L & SWR timetables.

Émile Zola incorporated a fictionalized account of the 1863 scandal in his novel L ' Oeuvre ( The Masterpiece ) ( 1886 ).

The controversy surrounding the paintings was described in Émile Zola's novel L ' Œuvre ( 1886 ).

In April of 1886, the settlement was renamed Strang after A. L. Strang donated a windmill to it.

Joel B. Peck, H. A. Cook ; 1879, William Moul ; 1880, C. Snyder ; 1881, Albert Kilmer ; 1882, Ezra W. Knowlton ; 1883, William Moul ; 1884, B. J. L. Sliter ; 1885, Albert Kilmer ; 1885, A. H. Cipperly ( appointed to fill, vacancy ); 1886, A. H. Cipperly ; 1887, Addison P. Lape ; 1888, C. Snyder ; 1889, Albert Kilmer ; 1890, Addison P. Lape ; 1891, Addison TJline ; 1892, E. M. Gregory, Le Grand M. Turner ( appointed to fill vacancy ); 1893, Sanford B. Horton ; 1894, Le Grand M. Turner ; 1895, Addison Uline ; 1896, Aipheus Bailey.

Mrs. L. S. Smith, one of the " few surviving members " of the first graduating class ( 1886 ), spoke of her memories of the old school, a talk that was followed by a musical presentation and a toast given by the future governor of Pennsylvania, Arthur James.

General William McKee Dunn and his wife Elizabeth Lanier Dunn purchased about located on the Washington, Ohio and Western Railroad, now the Washington and Old Dominion Regional Trail, from L. B. Clarke and his wife on June 8, 1886.

In 1886 the publishing establishment of A. L. Bancroft & Company burned, and the sheets of seven volumes of the history he had written were destroyed.

The Reverend Edwin H. Dodgson, the youngest brother of mathematician and writer Charles L. Dodgson ( author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll ) served as pastor to the population of Tristan da Cunha from 1881 to 1884, and again from 1886 to 1889.

In 1886 U. L.

** L. Witte, Das Leben Tholucks ( 2 vols, 1884 – 1886 )

I. C. L. Holm saw the potential to develop the area into a recreational centre, and established Peisestuen in 1886, Holmenkollen Sportsstue in 1891, Holmenkollen Sanatorium og Turisthotell in 1894, and Voksenkollen Sanatorium in 1900.

* Arthur L. Bristol ( 1886 – 1942 ), a United States Navy vice admiral

In early 1886, D. L. Moody established the Chicago Evangelization Society, for the " education and training of Christian workers, including teachers, ministers, missionaries and musicians who may completely and effectively proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ ".

A cigarette trading card depicting John L. Sullivan and produced in 1886

* Guatemalan Milksnake, L. t. abnorma ( Bocourt, 1886 )

* Pacific American Milksnake, L. t. oligozona ( Bocourt, 1886 )

On September 21, 1886, Butterfield married Mrs. Julia L. James of New York in a ceremony in London.

The most striking of his later novels include Happe-chair ( 1886 ), often compared with Zola's Germinal, L ' Arche, journal d ' une maman ( 1894 ) and Le Vent dans les moulins ( 1901 ), which returns to Flemish subjects.

* Monographs by L. Wiese ( Berlin, 1829 ), J. M. Valeton ( Groningen, 1874 ), L. Fontaine ( Versailles, 1878 ); H. Schulz, De MV aetate ( 1886 ); " Messalla in Aquitania " by J. P. Postgate in Classical Review, March 1903 ; WY Sellar, Roman Poets of the Augustan Age.