* 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 )

* A statue of Hugo Grotius made by Franciscus Leonardus Stracké in 1886, located on the Markt near the Nieuwe Kerk.

** La Fin de Satan by Victor Hugo ( written between 1855 and 1860, published in 1886 )

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

* September 25 – Hugo Black, American Supreme Court Justice ( b. 1886 )

** Hugo Ball, German poet, founder of Dadaism ( b. 1886 )

* Hugo Black ( 1886 – 1971 ), born in Harlan, served as an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court from 1937 until 1971

and that during the Middle Ages the area of Wałbrzych was part of the unpopulated Silesian Przesieka, According to a writing from 1667 by jurist and historian Ephraim Ignatius Naso, Wałbrzych already existed as a small village in 1191, a publication from German Empire from 1886 rejected this claim, and a German historian Hugo Weczerka rejects it as well.

Regarded as the year GEC was founded, 1886 saw Byng joined by a fellow immigrant, Hugo Hirst, and the company changed its name to The General Electric Apparatus Company ( G. Binswanger ).

A writer in the Milanese Revista critica della literatura italiana, June 1886, speculated that this ' Hugo ' might be connected to ' Huygens ' and discovered the name " Isaacke " in the town archives of Bruges.

The classic argument for copyright is the view that granting developers temporary monopolies over their works encourages further development and creativity by giving the developer a source of income ; normally copyright is enforced within a framework of Berne convention, instigated by Victor Hugo and signed in 1886.

In his dissent in the 1938 case of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson, Justice Hugo Black wrote " in 1886, this Court in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, decided for the first time that the word ' person ' in the amendment did in some instances include corporations.

Hugo Ball ( February 22, 1886 – September 14, 1927 ) was a German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists.

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.

Work considered foundational to the discipline of Comparative Literature include Transylvanian Hungarian Hugo Meltzl de Lomnitz's scholarship, also the founding editor of the journal Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum ( 1877 ) and Irish scholar H. M. Posnett's Comparative Literature ( 1886 ).

Mélingue's wife, Thodorine Thiesset ( 1813 – 1886 ), was the actress selected by Victor Hugo to create the part of Guanhumara in Burgraves at the Comédie-Française, where she remained ten years.

La Fin de Satan (" The End of Satan ", 1886 ) is a long religious epic by Victor Hugo, of which 5700 lines were written between 1854 and 1862, but left unfinished and published after his death.

It is remarkable for its fine tower and chime of bells, and contains the splendid allegorical monument of William the Silent, executed by Hendrik de Keyser and his son Pieter about 1621, and the tomb of Hugo Grotius, born in Delft in 1583, whose statue, erected in 1886, stands in the market-place outside the church.

Connecticut repealed the Black Law in 1838, and later recognized Crandall with a small pension in 1886, four years before her death.

In 1886, Datchet was known as Black Datchet because of a large number of bad characters living there.

Known as " Black Michael ", he notably served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1885 to 1886 and again from 1895 to 1902 and also led the Conservative Party in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886.

In Canada, James William Black of Berwick, Nova Scotia was granted a U. S. patent on December 8, 1885, and a Canadian patent on July 5, 1886, for " ice-cream soda ".

* James Black ( 1797 – 1886 ), Canadian clergyman, founder of the Disciples of Christ denomination in Canada

* James Black ( clergyman ) ( 1797 – 1886 ), Scottish-born clergyman in Canada

In 1886, Ontario clarified its law, so that such establishment could only occur after an application had been made by at least five Black families in the community.

The original Black Orpington was bred by William Cook in 1886 by crossing Minorcas, Langshans and Plymouth Rocks to create a new hybrid bird.

As such, his reputation was further confirmed by The Black Poodle ( 1884 ), The Tinted Venus ( 1885 ), A Fallen Idol ( 1886 ), and other works.

Between 1886 and 1898 Black farmers, sharecroppers, and agrarian laborers organized their communities to combat the rising tide of Jim Crow laws.

* Ali, Omar H. 2003 " Black Populism in the New South, 1886 – 1898 ," Ph. D. dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY ( UMI Number: 3104783 )

* Ali, Omar H., " Standing Guard at the Door of Liberty: Black Populism in South Carolina, 1886 – 1895 " The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol.

In 1886, as Republican representative from Greene County in the Ohio General Assembly, Arnett introduced legislation to repeal the state's " Black Laws ” which limited the freedom and rights of American American residents.

* Personal Recollections of Thomas De Quincey Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1886

Connecticut repealed the Black Law in 1838, and later recognized Prudence Crandall with an act of the state legislature, prominently supported by Mark Twain, providing her with a $ 400 yearly pension in 1886 ( about $ 9600 in 2010 dollars ).

As a lawyer, Black was best known for having served as defense counsel to the people charged with inciting the Haymarket Riot of 1886.

In 1886, just two years after the American Kennel Club was organized, the first Black and Tan Terrier was registered in the stud book.

From 1886 to 1891 Black headed the Jacksonville District, and in 1897-98 he was the Engineer Commissioner on the governing board of the District of Columbia.

Black Elk, a noted Sioux folk healer, told his biographer: " There was hunger among my people before I went across the big water Europe in 1886, because the Wasichus did not give us all the food they promised in the Black Hills treaty ...