* 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 – 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 )

** Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist ( b. 1886 )

He was born in Hyde Park, New York to Isaac Roosevelt ( 1790 – 1863 ) and his wife Mary Rebecca Aspinwall ( 1809 – 1886 ).

Solomon was a younger brother to fellow painters Abraham Solomon ( 1824 – 1862 ) and Rebecca Solomon ( 1832 – 1886 ).

* Solomon: A family of painters: Abraham Solomon, 1823 – 1862, Rebecca Solomon, 1832 – 1886, Simeon Solomon, 1840-1905: Geffrye Museum, London, 8 November-31 ... & Art Gallery, 18 January – 9 March 1986: Inner London Education Authority, 1986: ISBN 0-7085-9968-0

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.

under the title of Histoire des Romains depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu ' à la mort de Théodose ( 1879 – 1885 ), a really great work ; a magnificent illustrated edition was published from 1879 to 1885 ( English translation by WJ Clarke, in 6 vols., 1883 – 1886 ).

Clarke served as a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1886 to 1888.

Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke and Company, 1886.

With the establishment of the Trinity Women's Hostel ( which later became Janet Clarke Hall ) in 1886, Trinity admitted women as resident students, making it the first university college in Australia to do so.

In 1886, James B. Francis, teamed up with two other Civil Engineers ; Eliot C. Clarke and Clemens Herschel to study and publish their findings in the " Prevention of Floods in the Valley of Stony Brook " which laid out a flood prevention system for the city of Boston.

He was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1886.

The most successful of Audran's many comic operas were: Le grand mogol ( Marseille, 1877 ; Paris, 1884 ; London, as The Grand Mogul, 1884 with a libretto by Farnie, starring Florence St. John, Fred Leslie and Arthur Roberts ; New York as The Snake Charmer, 1881 ); La mascotte ( Paris, 1880 ; New York, 1881 ; London, as The Mascotte, 1881 with a libretto by Farnie, and cast including Lionel Brough and Henry Bracy ); Gillette de Narbonne ( Paris, 1882 ; London, as Gillette, 1883, libretto by Savile Clarke, with additional music by Walter Slaughter and Hamilton Clarke ); La cigale et la fourmi ( the grasshopper and the ant ) ( Paris, 1886 ; London, as La Cigale, 1890 ; English version by F. C. Burnand, starring Geraldine Ulmar, Eric Lewis and Brough ); Miss Helyett ( Paris, 1890 ; London, as Miss Decima, 1891, libretto by Burnand ); and La poupée ( Paris, 1896 ; London, 1897, libretto by Arthur Sturgess, starring Courtice Pounds and Willie Edouin ).

He first exhibited at the National Academy in 1868, was elected an associate of the Academy in 1879, and received its Thomas B. Clarke prize in 1886.

Charles Clarke ( November 28, 1826 – April 6, 1909 ) was speaker of the Legislature of Ontario in 1880-1883 and served as Liberal MLA for Wellington Centre from 1871 to 1886 and for Wellington East from 1886 to 1891.

* 1823 – Hugh Stowell Brown, English minister ( d. 1886 )

Irish nationalist reaction was mixed, Unionist opinion was hostile, and the election addresses during the 1886 election revealed English radicals to be against the bill also.

More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk ( 1886 ), Philomythus ( 1891 ), his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman ( 1892 ), and his article " The Gospels " in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world.

* 1886 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English Antarctic explorer ( d. 1959 )

* 1886 – George Mallory, English mountaineer ( d. 1924 )

* 1857 – Fred Archer, English jockey ( d. 1886 )

* 1924 – George Leigh Mallory, English mountaineer ( b. 1886 )

* Joe Smith ( footballer born 1886 ), English footballer for Hull City, Everton and Bury

* Frank Monk ( 1886 – 1962 ), English footballer ( Southampton, Glossop, Fulham )

* 1886 – Walter Terence Stace, English philosopher ( d. 1967 )

* 1886 – Leo G. Carroll, English actor ( d. 1972 )

* 1886 – Robert Robinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1975 )

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

He was beatified by Pope Leo XIII as one of a group of fifty-four English Martyrs on 29 December 1886.

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

* December 21 – Eric Coates, English composer ( b. 1886 )

* November 7 – Victor McLaglen, English actor ( b. 1886 )

** George Zucco, English actor ( b. 1886 )

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

* October 16 – Leo G. Carroll, English actor ( b. 1886 )

* May 17 – Austin Osman Spare, English magician ( b. 1886 )

* May 24 – Jim Barnes, English golf champion ( b. 1886 )