* 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 )

William E. Gladstone served as prime minister four times ( 1868 – 74, 1880 – 85, 1886, and 1892 – 94 ).

In 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).

Its business manager, William Randolph Hearst, hired Thayer as humor columnist for the San Francisco Examiner 1886 – 88.

The documents did not excite Woodford and in February 1886 he passed them on to Freemason William Wynn Westcott, who managed to decode them in 1887.

* 1886 – The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.

There are also two Pre-Raphaelite treatments of the latter scene by John Melhuish Strudwick ( 1886 ) and John William Waterhouse ( 1892 ).

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

With the passing of the Crofters ' Act in 1886 the Liberal prime minister William Gladstone emancipated crofters from the rule of the landlords.

Ty Cobb was born in Narrows, Georgia in 1886, the first of three children to Amanda Chitwood Cobb and William Herschel Cobb.

William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) was the Liberal counterpart to Disraeli, serving as prime minister four times ( 1868 – 74, 1880 – 85, 1886, and 1892 – 94 ).

; 1886: Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and the Liberal Party tries passing the First Irish Home Rule Bill, but the House of Commons rejects it.

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

The plinth of the cross has the inscription: ' In Memory of William Barnes, Died Oct 7th 1886.

Between 1884 and 1886, William attended the Metropolitan School of Art — now the National College of Art and Design — in Thomas Street.

A great-nephew of Jardine who would be taipan from 1874 to 1886, William Keswick ( 1834 – 1912 ), is the ancestor of the Keswick branch ( pronounced Ke-zick ) of the family.

Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse, 1886

The highest Test wicket partnership involving Grace was at The Oval in 1886 when he and William Scotton scored 170 for the first wicket against Australia.

* William Bliss Baker, American painter ( d. 1886 )

** William R. Munroe, American admiral ( b. 1886 )

* December 7 – William Edmunds, Italian stage and screen character actor ( b. 1886 )

* February 3 – William Fraser Tolmie, Scottish-Canadian scientist and politician ( d. 1886 )

** William W. Snow, American politician ( d. 1886 )

He published a biography of Joseph Chamberlain, which treated the split with William Gladstone over Irish Home Rule in 1886 as the pivotal point of his career, rather than the adoption of tariff reform, and contained the famous line: " All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs ".

Two Home Rule Bills ( 1886 and 1893 ) were introduced by Liberal Prime Minister Ewart Gladstone, but neither became law, mainly due to opposition from the House of Lords.

Although the Whigs at first formed the most important part of the coalition, the Whiggish elements of the new party progressively lost influence during the long leadership of the Peelite William Ewart Gladstone, and many of the old Whig aristocrats broke from the party over the issue of Irish home rule in 1886 to help form the Liberal Unionist Party — which itself would merge with the Conservative Party by 1912.

* William Ewart Gladstone ( 1886 )

In 1886, however, William Ewart Gladstone introduced the Irish Home Rule Bill.

He became Prime Minister in June 1885 when the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone resigned, and he held the office until January 1886.

Like his father, he became a Liberal Unionist in 1886 when William Ewart Gladstone proposed Irish Home Rule.

Unionism emerged as a unified force in opposition to William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule Bill of 1886.

Home Rule for Ireland dominated political debate between the two countries since Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone introduced the first Home Rule Bill in 1886, which was rejected by the House of Commons.

He was a Liberal politician and served under William Ewart Gladstone as Secretary of State for Scotland in 1886.

He was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Montgomery from 1863 to 1877 and served under William Ewart Gladstone as Captain of the Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1886.

He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1884 to 1885, as Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1886 and as President of the Local Government Board from 1892 to 1894 and under Lord Rosebery as Secretary of State for India from 1894 to 1895.

He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Comptroller of the Household in between February and July 1886 and was sworn of the Privy Council the same year.

Elgin entered politics as a Liberal, serving as Treasurer of the Household and as First Commissioner of Works under William Ewart Gladstone in 1886.

Elected member of parliament for Hackney South ( 1885 – 1894 ), he was knighted and appointed attorney-general by Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone in 1886, and again became attorney-general in 1892 on the return of the Liberals to power.

He served under William Ewart Gladstone as President of the Board of Trade in 1886 and from 1892 to 1894.

William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom First Gladstone Ministry | 1868-1874, Second Gladstone Ministry | 1880-1885, 1886, Fourth Gladstone Ministry | 1892-1894.

It was led by William Ewart Gladstone, from February of 1886 until August of that same year.

The Liberal Party under the leadership of William Ewart Gladstone came to power in the United Kingdom in February 1886 after they, with the support of the Irish Nationalists, defeated the Conservative government of Lord Salisbury.

The only Prime Minister to serve four terms was William Ewart Gladstone ( 3 December 1868 – 20 February 1874, 23 April 1880 – 23 June 1885, 1 February 1886 – 25 July 1886 and 15 August 1892 – 5 March 1894 ).

He was a member of William Ewart Gladstone's second administration from 1880 to 1883 and served as Chairman of Ways and Means ( Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons ) between 1886 and 1893.

* Billy Harrison ( William Ewart Harrison, 1886 – 1948 ), English football player