* 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 )

* 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 )

Le Noir Faineant in the Hermit's Cell by J. Cooper, Sr. From an 1886 edition of Walter Scott's works

* 1886 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist ( d. 1976 )

In the early 20th century, people like Ordway Tead ( 1891 – 1973 ), Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo ( 1880 – 1949 ), Mary Parker Follett ( 1868 – 1933 ), Chester Barnard ( 1886 – 1961 ), Max Weber ( 1864 – 1920 ), Rensis Likert ( 1903 – 1981 ), and Chris Argyris ( 1923-) approached the phenomenon of management from a sociological perspective.

* 1976 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist ( b. 1886 )

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

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

* March 4 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist ( b. 1886 )

* August 2 – Walter Terence Stace, British philosopher ( b. 1886 )

* Alice in Wonderland ( musical ), 1886 musical by H. Saville Clark and Walter Slaughter

Her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland ( 31 August 1872 – 23 May 1968 ; aged 95 ), was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and her mother, Lilian Augusta ( née Ruse ; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975 ; aged 88 ) was a stage actress who had left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband – she would return to work after her daughters had already won fame in the 40s, with the stage name of Lillian Fontaine.

There are translations into modern German by B. Obermann ( 1886 ), and into English verse by W. Alison Phillips — Selected poems of Walter van der Vogelweide, with introduction and notes ( London, 1896 ).

On 24 October 1886, they moved to the United States, as they both had been hired by Walter Damrosch and Anton Seidl to join the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

** Walter Henry Montagu Douglas Scott, Earl of Dalkeith ( 1861 – 1886 ), eldest son of the 6th Duke, died unmarried

** Walter Scott, Earl of Dalkeith ( 1861 – 1886 ), eldest son of the 6th Duke, died unmarried

* Walter Cramer ( 1886 – 1944 ), German businessman and anti-Hitler conspirator

He was born the son of Lt-Colonel Walter Peake DSO on 12 June 1886.

* Ernest Walter Hives, 1st Baron Hives ( 1886 – 1965 )

Horace Jones ( Walter William Ouless, 1886 )

Walter Rollin Brooks ( January 9, 1886 – August 17, 1958 ) was an American writer best remembered for his short stories and children's books, particularly those about Freddy the Pig and other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the " Bean farm " in upstate New York.

* Walter Atlee Edwards ( 1886 – 1928 ), United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient

* Sir Walter Murdoch ( 1876-1970 ), Australian academic and essayist ; Murdoch University in Western Australia is named after him ; Walter Murdoch was born in Rosehearty and spend the first 10 years of his life there, the youngest of 14 siblings, before emigrating with his family to Melbourne in 1886 ; his father James Murdoch was the Free Kirk minister at Rosehearty.

Even after professional foot racing died out, it was not until 1915 that the professional record of 4: 12¾ ( set by Walter George in 1886 ) was surpassed by an amateur.

Notable people from Calne include Saint Edmund, John Pym and the athlete Walter Goodall George who held the world record for the mile from 1886 to 1915.

He undertook a history of the Bábí religion through publication of A Traveller's Narrative ( Makála-i-Shakhsí Sayyáh ) in 1886, later translated and published in translation in 1891 through Cambridge University by the agency of Edward Granville Browne who described ` Abdu ' l-Bahá as:

* 1886 J. Edward Simmons

The manuscript is known today only from facsimile copies, twenty four of which were made in 1886 by Edward Rożnowski, Wybicki's grandson, who donated them to Polish libraries.

* 1886 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1972 )

* 1886 – Edward Weston, American photographer ( d. 1958 )

* 1886 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor ( d. 1970 )

* May 15 – Father Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-born priest and founder of Boys Town ( b. 1886 )

** Edward Sheldon, American playwright ( b. 1886 )

* May 4 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1886 )

They lived with his maternal grandparents at 2129 Ida Place ( now Ward Place ), NW in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D. C. His father, James Edward Ellington, was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina on April 15, 1879 and moved to Washington, D. C. in 1886 with his parents.

During Queen Victoria's widowhood, Edward pioneered the idea of royal public appearances as we understand them today — for example, opening Thames Embankment in 1871, Mersey Tunnel in 1886, and Tower Bridge in 1894.

* Waite, Arthur Edward, Israfel: Letters, Visions and Poems, London: Allen, 1886.

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

The local Aboriginal group is the Dundu: ra / Doondora people the inhabitants of the Hervey Bay ( Dundu: ra Bay ) region which stretched from the Mary River to the Burnett River who were part of the Wahr Language Group of the Kabi nation ( Edward Curr 1886 ).

In 1886 the canal was sold to a miller called Edward Press for £ 600, but the principal clerk absconded with most of the money and it was never recovered.

Edward " Kid " Ory ( December 25, 1886 – January 23, 1973 ) was a jazz trombonist and bandleader.

His efforts on behalf of the area were rewarded in 1886, when Congressman Edward K. Valentine secured a post office for the settlement, naming it the Beemer Post Office.

* Morris, Edward Ellis. The Early Hanoverians, London, 1886.

* AC Ewald, Life and Times of Prince Charles Edward ( 1886 ).

*; and the articles there on Francis Fry ( 1803 – 1886 ), Edmund Fry ( 1754 – 1835 ), Joseph Storrs Fry ( 1826 – 1913 ), Edward Fry ( 1827 – 1918 ), and Sophia Fry née Pease.

In 1886, its partners – Joseph Newton Pew, Philip Pisano and Edward O. Emerson – decided to expand their gas business with a stake in the new oil discoveries in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Edward Everett Horton ( March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970 ) was an American character actor.

The Nigger is a play by American playwright Edward Sheldon ( 1886 – 1946 ).