* 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 )

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

His father was Rufus King Bellamy ( 1816 – 1886 ), a Baptist minister and a descendant of Joseph Bellamy.

* 1886 – Henry King, American film director ( d. 1982 )

* February 28 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain ( b. 1886 )

* June 29 – Henry King, American film director ( b. 1886 )

* August 25 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria ( d. 1886 )

* Tennyson, Alfred Lord ( 1886 ) Idylls of the King

* Metropolitan Opera, New York: 12 November 1886, conducted by Anton Seidl, with Therese Herbert-Förster ( the wife of Victor Herbert ) in the title role, Carl Zobel as Radamès, Marianne Brandt as Amneris, Adolf Robinson as Amonasro, Emil Fischer as Ramfis, and Georg Sieglitz as the King.

In 1886 a third species, Swietenia macrophylla, was named by Sir George King ( 1840 – 1909 ) after studying specimens of Honduras mahogany planted in the Botanic Gardens in Calcutta, India.

He was so depressed at the tone of class warfare – although Asquith told him that party rancour had been just as bad over the First Home Rule Bill in 1886 – that he introduced the Prince of Wales to War Minister Haldane as " the last King of England ".

In Germany, the title Prinzregent ( literally prince regent ) is most commonly associated with Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, who served as regent for two of his nephews, King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who was declared mentally incompetent in 1886, and King Otto of Bavaria ( who had been declared insane in 1875 ) from 1886 until 1912.

Willis Harold O ' Brien ( AKA: " Obie "; March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962 ) was an Irish American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood " was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history ," and is best remembered for his work on The Lost World ( 1925 ), King Kong ( 1933 ) and Mighty Joe Young ( 1949 ), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

* The Royal Conservatory of Music ; founded in 1886 as the Toronto Conservatory of Music ; reconstituted by a Royal Charter issued in 1947 by King George VI

The Second Street Bridge in Allegan is a whipple-trough truss bridge erected by the King Iron Bridge Company ( Cleveland, Ohio ) in 1886.

* Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany celebrated his Silver Jubilee on 2 January 1886 as King of Prussia.

In 1886, Catholic parents in Edgerton protested the reading of the King James Bible in the village schools because they considered the Douay version the correct translation.

This was the first marriage of a member of the Portuguese royal family to take place in Portugal since the marriage of King Carlos I in 1886.

* Harry King ( 1886 – 1968 ) was a professional English footballer who was born in Northampton, and began his career at Evesham Star F. C ..

* Ludwig II of Bavaria ( 1845 – 1886 ), " Mad King Ludwig "

Otto (; 27 April 1848 – 11 October 1916 ), was King of Bavaria from 1886 to 1913.

* 1845 – Ludwig II of Bavaria ( d. 1886 )

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.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( born as Maria Ludwig Michael Mies ; March 27, 1886, Aachen – August 17, 1969, Chicago ) was a German-American architect.

** Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect ( b. 1886 )

* Town and Resort Museum: permanent exhibition on the history of Doberan-Heiligendamm in the old residence of architect and master builder Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel, who built this Neogothic villa from 1886 to 1888.

On 10 June 1886, the Bavarian cabinet declared King Ludwig II unable to rule and apppointed his uncle Luitpold as Prince Regent.

He received his medical degree in 1880, studied under Carl Ludwig at University of Leipzig, took a Ph. D. in physiology and was appointed professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen in 1886.

The district was created in 1886 under the name Bezirksamt Ludwigshafen, one of the last acts of king Ludwig II of Bavaria.

* King Otto of Bavaria, who succeeded his brother Ludwig II in 1886

In 1886, Fränkel made the first description of a patient with pheochromocytoma ; however, the term was first coined by Ludwig Pick, a pathologist, in 1912.

Rupprecht's grandfather, Luitpold, became de-facto ruler of Bavaria when King Ludwig II and his successor Otto both were declared insane in 1886.

* 1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is born.

Ludwig Georg Elias Moses Bieberbach ( 4 December 1886 – 1 September 1982 ) was a German mathematician.

Ludwig died in 1886 before work on the castle proper could begin, and the many plans for Falkenstein were permanently abandoned.

In 1886 he conducted the first in a series of orchestral concerts devoted to the music of Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt and Ludwig van Beethoven while continuing to tour extensively and play his works in collaboration with other artists such as the conductor Hans Richter and the violinist Joseph Joachim.

* King Ludwig II of Bavaria mysteriously drowned in Lake Starnberg at the small town of Berg nearby, on the evening of 13 June 1886.

* Ludwig Loewe ( 1837 – 1886 ), politician

* Ludwig II 1864 – 1886