* 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 )

* Ronald Townshend Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn ( 1886 – 1936 )

* Ronald Hatton ( 1886 – 1965 ), English horticulturist

Their daughter, Martha Cameron ( b. 1886 ), married Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay in 1909.

Ronald Niel Stuart VC DSO RD RNR ( 26 August 1886 – 8 February 1954 ) was a British Merchant Navy commodore and Royal Navy captain who was highly commended following extensive and distinguished service at sea over a period of more than thirty-five years.

Ronald Niel Stuart was born in 1886 in Liverpool to Neil Stuart and Mary Harrison, both from experienced seafaring families.

* Ronald Niel Stuart VC DSO RD RNR ( 1886 – 1954 ) was highly decorated for his service in the Royal Navy during the first World War I.

* May 21-Ronald Firbank, British novelist ( born 1886 )

* 1886 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, British author ( d. 1988 )

* 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.

John T. Arundel and Company, a British firm using a competing claim to the island by the UK, made the island its headquarters for its guano-digging operations in the Pacific from 1886 to 1891.

John T. Arundel and Company, a British firm using laborers from the Cook Islands and Niue, occupied the island from 1886 to 1891.

In 1882 he began a connection with West Africa which lasted the rest of his life, by accepting the chairmanship of the National African Company, formed by Sir George Goldie, which in 1886 received a charter under the title of the Royal Niger Company and in 1899 was taken over by the British government, its territories being constituted the protectorate of Nigeria.

In 1886, a group of French and British language teachers, led by the French linguist Paul Passy, formed what would come to be known from 1897 onwards as the International Phonetic Association ( in French, l ’ Association phonétique internationale ).

* 1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

* 1886 – The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.

The British ( in 1875 ) and French ( in 1886 ) are also alleged to have fuelled internal Liberian uprisings and wars.

In 1886 Weber passed the examination for Referendar, comparable to the bar association examination in the British and American legal systems.

* By Nile and Tigris, a narrative of journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British museum between the years 1886 and 1913, by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, 1920 ( a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; DjVu & layered PDF format )

* 1846 – Randolph Caldecott, British artist and illustrator ( d. 1886 )

On 1 January 1886, the millennium-old Burmese monarchy and its military arm, the Royal Burmese Army, were formally abolished by the British.

* 1886 – Ben Travers, British playwright ( d. 1980 )

Meanwhile, in 1948, under pressure from their World War II allies and to the dismay of the Somalis, the British " returned " the Haud ( an important Somali grazing area that was presumably ' protected ' by British treaties with the Somalis in 1884 and 1886 ) and the Ogaden to Ethiopia, based on a treaty they signed in 1897 in which the British ceded Somali territory to the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik in exchange for his help against plundering by Somali clans.

In 1948, under pressure from their World War II allies and to the dismay of the Somalis, the British " returned " the Hawd ( an important Somali grazing area that was presumably ' protected ' by British treaties with the Somalis in 1884 and 1886 ) and the Ogaden to Ethiopia, based on a treaty they signed in 1897 in which the British ceded Somali territory to the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik in exchange for his help against the Somali clans, by plundering the clans.

While the Belgian interest soon concentrated on the Congo River, the British and Germans focused on Eastern Africa and in 1886 partitioned continental East Africa between themselves ; the Sultanate of Zanzibar, now reduced to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, remained independent, for the moment.

In 1886 and 1890, Anglo-German agreements were negotiated that delineated the British and German spheres of influence in the interior of East Africa and along the coastal strip previously claimed by the Sultan of Zanzibar.

* May 15 – Charles Williams, British author ( b. 1886 )

* March 31 – John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, British Field Marshal ( b. 1886 )