* 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 )

* 1886 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician ( d. 1957 )

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

* May 13 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician ( b. 1886 )

** Michael Curtiz, Austrian-born film director ( b. 1886 )

* November 11 – August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Michael Schwab, and Samuel Fielden are hanged for inciting riot and murder in the Haymarket Riot of May 4, 1886.

Michael Curtiz ( December 24, 1886 April 10, 1962 ) was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director.

He presided over the Haymarket Riot case in 1886, sentencing anarchists August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, and Louis Lingg to death and Oscar Neebe to fifteen years.

For the origin of Hahnville, see Michael Hahn ( 1830 – 1886 ).

On November 21, 1886, the church was dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel.

The couple had six children: Julia Romana Howe ( 1844 – 1886 ) married Michael Anagnos, a Greek scholar who succeeded Dr. Howe as director of the Perkins Institute ; Florence Marion Howe ( 1845 – 1922 ), an author, she wrote a well-known treatise on manners and was married to lawyer David Prescott Hall ; Henry Marion Howe ( 1848 – 1922 ), a metallurgist who lived in New York ; Laura Elizabeth Howe ( 1850 – 1943 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to Henry Richards and lived in Maine ; Maud Howe ( 1855 – 1948 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to an English muralist and illustrator, John Elliott ; Samuel Gridley Howe, Jr. ( 1858 – 1863 ).

Griffith held the Premier's office until 1888, and was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1886, before receiving an advancement to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1895.

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.

Thomas Hardy uses a fairy ring as a symbol of lost love in The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ); the character Michael Henchard passes a fairy ring and remembers that he last saw his wife Susan there when he sold her to a sailor in a drunken rage.

In 1886, due to the development of the Center City district, La Salle moved to a third location, the former mansion of Michael Bouvier, the great-great-grandfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, at 1240 North Broad Street.

This prayer, whose opening words are similar to the Alleluia verse for Saint Michael ’ s feasts on 8 May and 29 September in the Roman Missal of the time ( which ran, " Sancte Michael, defende nos in proelio ut non pereamus in tremendo iudicio "), was added in 1886 to the Leonine Prayers that in 1884 Pope Leo XIII ordered to be said after Low Mass, for the intention of obtaining a satisfactory solution to the problem that the loss of the Pope's temporal sovereignty caused in depriving him of the evident independence required for effective use of his spiritual authority.

File: William Michael Harnett 002. jpg | The Old Violin, 1886, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Michael J. Keyes ( 1886 – 1959 ) was an Irish Labour Party politician.

König Jérôme oder Immer Lustick is a comic operetta in five acts by Karl Michael Ziehrer with the text by Adolf Schirmer ( 1810 – 1886 ).

Among his other works are Det hvide Hus ( The White House, 1898 ), Excentriske Noveller ( Eccentric Stories, 1885 ), Stille Eksistenser ( Quiet Existences, 1886 ), Liv og Død ( Life and Death, 1899 ), Englen Michael ( The Angel Michael, 1902 ), a volume of poems ( 1889 ), and recollections, Ti Aar ( Ten Years, 1891 ).

* Michael Ruck, Die Freien Gewerkschaften im Ruhrkampf 1923 ( Frankfurt am Main, 1886 );

Marcel Riesz (, ; 16 November 1886 – 4 September 1969 ) was a Hungarian-born mathematician, known for work on summation methods, potential theory, and other parts of analysis, as well as number theory, partial differential equations, and Clifford algebras.

Politzer, a Hungarian-born otologist practicing in Vienna, experimented with rubber in 1886 while the vinyl prototype of the current grommet was introduced by Armstrong in 1954.

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

* 1886 – Jean Hersholt, Danish director and actor ( d. 1956 )

* July 16 – Alfred Junge, German-born art director ( b. 1886 )

* June 17 – Arthur Rosson, English film director ( b. 1886 )

* August 10 – Frank Lloyd, American film director ( b. 1886 )

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

Following the notable 1958 staging of the 1886 five-act Italian version at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ( director Luchino Visconti ), this version has increasingly been performed elsewhere and has been recorded by, among others, Georg Solti and Carlo Maria Giulini.

* Crane Wilbur ( 1886 – 1973 ), American writer, actor and director

* Richard Smith ( silent film director ) ( 1886 – 1937 ), American silent film director

* Edward James Salisbury ( 1886 – 1978 ), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from 1943 to 1956 ; cousin of Frank O. Salisbury

* John Murray Anderson ( 1886 – 1954 ), Newfoundland-American theater director

This brought him to the attention of Hamburg America Line, who hired him in 1886, and made him general director in 1899.

* Jess Robbins ( 1886 – 1973 ), American film director

* Reginald Barker ( 1886 – 1945 ), film director

* Henry Lehrman ( 1886 – 1946 ), director

In October 1886, the syndicate became the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company, with D ' Arcy a director and the largest shareholder.

After spending the intervening time in Europe, he returned to New York City in 1886, and purchased for German capitalists large amounts of the securities of the transportation system that he was instrumental in creating, becoming again director of the Northern Pacific, and on 21 June 1888, again president of the Oregon and Transcontinental Company.

Gaston Maspero, the French Egyptologist and second director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, conducted a survey of the Sphinx in 1886 and concluded:

In 1886 Bleuler became the director of a psychiatric clinic at Rheinau, a hospital located in an old monastery on an island in the Rhine.

* Léon Mathot ( 1886 – 1968 ) – French film actor and director