* 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 ).

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 )

* Maithili Sharan Gupt ( 1886 – 1964 ), pioneer of Khadiboli poetry

* Maithili Sharan Gupt ( 1886 – 1965 ), a Hindi poet

Another theory by Yule and Burnell ( 1886 ) is based on an entry in the Catalogue of Indian Serpents from the Leyden Museum ( Ray, 1693 ) that reads: Anacondaia Zeylonensibus, id est Bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens, meaning " the anacondaia of the Ceylonese, i. e. he that crushes the limbs of buffaloes and yoke beasts.

The “ perennialist ” or “ traditionalist ” school is represented by authors like the French René Guénon ( 1886 – 1951 ), the Indian Ananda Coomaraswamy ( 1877 – 1947 ), the Swiss Frithjof Schuon ( 1907 – 1998 ), the Italian Julius Evola ( 1898 – 1974 ), the Iranian Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( born in 1933 ), both scholars and esotericists.

* 1836 – Sri Ramakrishna, Indian Bengali guru of Swami Vivekananda ( d. 1886 )

* 1886 – Radhabinod Pal, Indian jurist ( d. 1967 )

* 1886 – American Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.

In 1886, twenty of the Hopi leaders signed a petition sent to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs requesting that a school be built on their land.

Indianola was formed on the portion of the Port Madison Indian Reservation which had been allotted to KaKue aka " Beedee " in 1886.

Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years ( 1823 – 1886 ), during which three Anglo-Burmese wars took place, and incorporated it into its Indian Empire.

* Indian Canoe ca 1886 ' at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX

With little discussion, Churchill then decided to annex the final remnant of the once great Burmese kingdom, adding it as a new province of the Indian Raj as a " New Year present " for Queen Victoria on New Year's Day 1886.

Don Bastian of Dehiwala introduced Noorthy firstly by looking at Indian dramas and then John De Silva developed it and did Ramayanaya in 1886.

Some of his works include " Jedburgh Abbey "; " Pontaine Marshes " ( 1847 ); " Backwoods of America " ( 1857 ); " Richmond Hill " ( 1862 ); " Indian Summer " ( 1866 ); " Greenwood Lake " ( 1870 ); " Lake Nemi in Italy " ( 1879 ); " Old Church at Arreton, Isle of Wight " ( 1880 ); " Ramapo Valley " ( 1881 ); " Autumn on the Hudson " ( 1882 ; however, the New York Daily Tribune refers to a painting by Cropsey called " Autumn on the Hudson " in its morning edition of Jan. 7, 1861 ): " Wawayanda Valley " ( 1883 ); " Spring-time in England " ( 1884 ); " October in Ramapo Valley " ( 1885 ); " Autumn on Lake George ," and " A Showery Day " ( 1886 ).

Ustad Moula Bux founded the Academy of Indian Music under the patronage of Sayajirao, on 26 February 1886.

Recorded wrecks on the 5 km stretch of coastline between Trwyn y Witch and Nash Point include: the Royal Hunter ( 1747 ), the Indian Prince ( 1752 ), the Elizabeth ( 1753 ), the Prince ( 1764 ), the George ( 1770 ), the Industry ( 1786 ), the Thomas ( 1806 ), the Bee ( 1820 ), the Harriet ( 1827 ), the Jessie Orasie ( 1831 ), the Frolic ( 1831 ), the Providence ( 1832 ), the Mayflower ( 1841 ), the New Felicity ( 1841 ), the Vigo ( 1842 ), the Betsey ( 1849 ), the Lucie ( 1854 ), the Williams ( 1854 ), the Mary & Deffus ( 1861 ), the Gillies ( 1862 ), the Elphis ( 1865 ), the Amelie ( 1870 ), the New Dominian ( 1872 ), the Bessie ( 1872 ), the John & Eliza ( 1876 ), the Jane & Susan ( 1882 ), the Ben-y-gloe ( 1886 ), the Malleny ( 1886 ), the Caterina Camogle ( 1887 ), the Denbigh ( 1888 ), the Tilburnia ( 1888 ), the Claymore ( 1892 ), the Lizzie ( 1892 ), the Elizabeth Couch ( 1913 ), the Narcissus ( 1916 ), the Pollensa ( 1919 ) and the Cato ( 1951 ).

In 1886 measures were adopted to restrict Indian entry into the civil service.

From October 1886 to May 1887, the famous Apache Indian Geronimo was imprisoned in Fort Pickens, along with several of his warriors.

The network of communication begun by General Miles during 1886, and continued by Lieutenant W. A. Glassford, was perfected during 1889 at ranges of 85, 88, 95, and 125 miles over a rugged and broken country, which was the stronghold of the Apache and other hostile Indian tribes.

* Dawes, E. C .: Journal of Gen. Rufus Putnam kept in Northern New York during Four Campaigns of the old French and Indian War, Joel Munsell ’ s Sons, Albany, New York ( 1886 ).

# In 1886 he joined the Indian National Congress.

The city remained as a major centre of the Indian independence movement from Indian Rebellion of 1857 until the independence as many national leaders visited the city during the movement such as Lala Lajpat Rai in 1886, Subhas Chandra Bose in 1938, and Jawaharlal Nehru in 1946.

Chatta Singh VC ( 1886 – 28 March 1961 ) was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

* Handbook of British North Borneo: Compiled from Reports Received from Governor Treacher and from other Officers in the British North Borneo Company's Service by Colonial and Indian Exhibition ( 1886 )

* 1886 – Árpád Tóth, Hungarian poet ( d. 1928 )

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

* 1843 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet ( d. 1886 )

* 1968 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet ( b. 1886 )

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

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

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

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

* 1886 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet ( d. 1980 )

* 1810 – Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet ( d. 1886 )

* 1886 – Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist ( d. 1961 )

* 1886 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet ( d. 1967 )

William Barnes ( 22 February 1801 – 7 October 1886 ) was an English writer, poet, minister, and philologist.

** Joyce Kilmer, American journalist and poet ( b. 1886 )

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

* February 29 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet ( b. 1886 )

* July 7 – Gottfried Benn, German poet ( b. 1886 )

** Siegfried Sassoon, British poet ( b. 1886 )

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

* March 10 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist ( d. 1886 )

* December 10 – Emily Dickinson, American poet ( d. 1886 )

Joyce Kilmer ( Born: Alfred Joyce Kilmer, 6 December 1886 – 30 July 1918 ) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled " Trees " ( 1913 ), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914.

Gottfried Benn ( 2 May 1886 Putlitz, Brandenburg – 7 July 1956 West Berlin ) was a German essayist, novelist, and expressionist poet.

* Zoe Akins, ( 1886 – 1958 ), became a successful poet, playwright, and screenwriter.