* 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 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist ( d. 1956 )

Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ) was a classic Gothic work of the 1880s, seeing many stage adaptations.

Classic works of this Urban Gothic include Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ), George du Maurier's Trilby ( 1894 ), Richard Marsh's The Beetle: A Mystery ( 1897 ), Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw ( 1898 ), and the stories of Arthur Machen.

Robert Louis Stevenson's work included the urban Gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), and played a major part in developing the historical adventure in books like Kidnapped and Treasure Island.

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

" Edgar and Lucie at Mermaiden's well " by Charles Robert Leslie ( 1886 ), after Sir Walter Scott's Bride of Lammermoor.

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

* April 19 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist ( b. 1886 )

* December 10 – Robert C. Giffen, American admiral ( b. 1886 )

* June 4 – Robert McKim, American actor ( b. 1886 )

* Robert Ridgway's A Nomenclature of Colors ( 1886 ) and Color Standards and Color Nomenclature ( 1912 )-text-searchable digital facsimiles at Linda Hall Library

Robert ( 1886 ), a physician from Hamburg, was the first who suggested that dreams are a need and that they have the function to erase ( a ) sensory impressions that were not fully worked up, and ( b ) ideas that were not fully developed during the day.

* Robert Schuman ( 1886 – 1963 ), French politician and a founding father of the European Union

* Robert Antoine Pinchon ( 1886 – 1943 ), Post-Impressionist painter of the Rouen School, ( l ' École de Rouen )

* Robert P. Blake ( 1886 – 1950 ), American Byzantist and Orientalist

* Ernest Robert Curtius ( 1886 – 1956 ), German scholar, philologist

* Robert D. Lilley, ( 1836 – 1886 ), born in Greenville, Augusta County, Confederate Army general in the American Civil War.

Wilson started as a company town for Robert E. Lee Wilson's nearby logging and sawmill operation founded in 1886.

The film is an adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), the Robert Louis Stevenson tale of a man who takes a potion which turns him from a mild-mannered man of science into a homicidal maniac.

* Mr Hyde, character in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

From 1886 until 1891, he studied at the University of Heidelberg under Robert Bunsen, at the University of Berlin ( today the Humboldt University of Berlin ) in the group of A. W. Hofmann, and at the Technical College of Charlottenburg ( today the Technical University of Berlin ) under Carl Liebermann.

* The town of Redwater, Texas, was originally named Ingersoll in honor of Robert Ingersoll when it was founded in the mid-1870s ; the current name was adopted after a revival meeting held in the town in 1886.

*" The War of the Roses ", nickname of the 1886 campaign for governor of Tennessee, contested by brothers Alfred A. Taylor and Robert Love Taylor, whose supporters wore red and white roses respectively

* Hunter, William., The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Turbner & Co .: London 1886

David Hunter ( July 21, 1802 – February 2, 1886 ) was a Union general in the American Civil War.

* William Hunter ( politician ) ( 1805 – 1886 ), U. S. Assistant Secretary of State ; Rhode Island politician

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 1882 Hunter, as a member of the governor-general's council, presided over the commission on Indian Education ; in 1886 he was elected vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta.

* Robert Hunter ( golfer ) ( 1886 – 1971 ), American golfer and Olympic gold medalist

A popular local legend has it that Hunter, or some other later landowner, went to the summit with a hand level in order to be sure they had indeed purchased the Catskills ' highest peak, and were satisfied until an " unknown " peak appeared on the southern horizon — Slide Mountain, the range's true highest peak but not identified as such until 1886 ( which makes this legend unlikely to have any basis in fact, as the necessary clearing at the summit for the fire tower was made well afterwards ).

* Hunter, William W. The Imperial Gazetteer of India ( Trubner & Co, 1886 ).

* Hunter, W. W. – ( 1886 ) The Indian Empire ; Its People History and Products pp 240

In April 1886 he began surveying the Hunter Valley coalfields and in August discovered the Greta coal seam, which yielded over £ 50, 000, 000 worth of coal up to 1949.