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

The first complete synthesis of an alkaloid was achieved in 1886 by the German chemist Albert Ladenburg.

The first official World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886 ; the current World Champion is Viswanathan Anand.

The 1886 Berne Convention first established recognition of copyrights among sovereign nations, rather than merely bilaterally.

The first football match at which there were any gate receipts was when Fulham played against Minerva in the Middlesex Senior Cup, on 10 October 1886.

Dysprosium was first identified in 1886 by Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, but was not isolated in pure form until the development of ion exchange techniques in the 1950s.

The University of Missouri subsequently established the first department of electrical engineering in the United States in 1886.

He wrote that his painting The Sick Child ( 1886 ), based on his sister's death, was his first " soul painting ", his first break from Impressionism.

* 1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work.

One of the club's first ever kits was half red, half white shirts with white shorts worn in the 1886 – 7 season.

The first telephones were introduced to Gibraltar in 1886 by a private company which was later taken over by the colonial authorities.

* 1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.

* 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

* 1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.

* 1886 – The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.

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

In 1886, Landis first ventured into Republican Party politics, supporting a friend, Charles F. Griffin for Indiana Secretary of State.

In 1879 his first engine patent was granted to him and in 1886 Benz was granted a patent for his first automobile ...

The disease is named after Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora ( 1886 – 1971 ), a Spanish neuropathologist who first recognized small inclusion bodies in Lafora patients.

In March 1880 he established a monthly trade journal, The Poultry Record, and in 1886, when Baum was 30 years old, his first book was published: The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing, and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs.

* 1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named " Coca-Cola " as a patent medicine.

* 1886 – Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.

The first scheduled passenger transcontinental train arrived on July 4, 1886, a date which is still celebrated during Golden Spike Days.

Ottawa became part the transcontinental rail network on June 28, 1886, when Pacific Express connected it to Hull and then onto Lachute, Quebec.

A further extension in 1880s with the combined forces of the Northern Railway and the Hamilton & North-Western Railway connected the line from Muskoka, to the transcontinental CPR at North Bay in 1886.