Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1886
Birthdays
- January 2 - Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
- January 2 - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1959)
- January 3 - Josephine Hull, American actress (d. 1957)
- January 13 - Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 1964)
- January 14 - Hugh Lofting, English author (d. 1947)
- January 16 - John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
- January 17 - Ronald Firbank, British novelist (d. 1926)
- January 17 - Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (d. 1955)
- January 18 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (d. 1962)
- January 22 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1921)
- January 24 - Henry King, American film director (d. 1982)
- January 25 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
- January 28 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
- January 28 - Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976)
- February 8 - Charles Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970)
- February 16 - Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic (d. 1963)
- February 22 - Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927)
- February 27 - Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)
- March 1 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (d. 1980)
- March 2 - Willis O'Brien, American animator (d. 1962)
- March 3 - Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)
- March 4 - Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958)
- March 5 - Dong Biwu, High-ranking member of the Communist Party of China (d. 1975)
- March 8 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist
- March 14 - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)
- March 17 - Princess Patricia of Connaught, British princess (d. 1974)
- March 18 - Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970)
- March 24 - Athenagoras I, Greek Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
- March 24 - Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
- March 25 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
- March 26 - Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971)
- March 27 - Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
- March 27 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)
- April 6 - Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII
- April 7 - Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (d. 1971)
- April 14 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d. 1956)
- April 15 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921)
- April 16 - Ernst Thälmann, German politician (d. 1944)
- April 26 - Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
- April 26 - Ðabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
- May 2 - Gottfried Benn, German author (d. 1956)
- May 3 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971)
- May 9 - Francis Biddle, United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
- May 10 - Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (d. 1968)
- May 10 - Olaf Stapledon, British author and philosopher (d. 1950)
- May 10 - Felix Manalo, Founder and 1st Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (d. 1963)
- May 17 - Alfonso XIII of Spain, (d. 1941)
- May 24 - Paul Paray, French conductor and composer (d. 1979)
- May 25 - Philip Murray, U.S. (Scottish-born) labor leader (d. 1952)
- May 25 - Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (d. 1945)
- May 26 - Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950)
- May 28 - Santo Trafficante, Sr.
- May 30 - Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
- June 7 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
- June 18 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978)
- June 24 - George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d. 1949)
- June 25 - Henry H. Arnold, American Army Air Force commander (d. 1950)
- June 29 - Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
- July 5 - Willem Drees, Dutch politician (d. 1988)
- July 11 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
- July 12 - Jean Hersholt, Danish film director and actor (d. 1956)
- July 23 - Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish League of Nations official (d. 1978)
- July 23 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
- July 24 - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese novelist (d. 1965)
- July 25 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
- July 26 - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
- July 27 - Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
- July 31 - Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure (d. 1931)
- August 2 - John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator, ( d. 1961)
- August 12 - Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)
- August 15 - Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer (d. 1974)
- August 20 - Paul Tillich, German-American theologian (d. 1965)
- August 27 - Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
- August 27 - Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
- September 4 - Albert Orsborn, General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967)
- September 8 - Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (d. 1967)
- September 10 - Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)
- September 13 - Sir Robert Robinson, British chemist
- September 13 - Amelie Beese, German aviator and sculptor. (d. 1925)
- September 14 - Jan Masaryk, Czech foreign minister and diplomat (d. 1948)
- September 16 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter (d. 1966)
- September 20 - Charles Williams, British author (d. 1945)
- September 26 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist
- October 3 - Alain-Fournier, French novelist (d. 1914)
- October 4 - Luis Alberni, Spanish actor (d. 1962)
- October 6 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
- October 9 - Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
- October 16 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
- October 17 - Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971)
- October 21 - Eugene Burton Ely, American aviation pioneer (d. 1911)
- October 22 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (d. 1970)
- October 25 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (d. 1972)
- October 30 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
- November 1 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d. 1951)
- November 2 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1971)
- November 7 - Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (d. 1935)
- November 9 - S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
- November 9 - Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
- November 12 - Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
- November 13 - Mary Wigman, German dancer and choreographer (d. 1973)
- November 15 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
- November 20 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist
- November 21 - Harold Nicolson, British diplomat (d. 1968)
- November 24 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher (d. 1973)
- December 1 - Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)
- December 2 - Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)
- December 3 - Manne Siegbahn, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
- December 5 - Rose Wilder Lane, American writer and reporter
- December 6 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (d. 1918)
- December 8 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)
- December 9 - Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. 1956)
- December 18 - Ty Cobb, American baseball player (d. 1961)
- December 20 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (d. 1974)
- December 24 - Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (d. 1962)
- December 25 - Kid Ory, American musician (d. 1973)
Deaths
- January 16 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian opera composer (b. 1834)
- January 18 - Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
- January 26 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
- March 30 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, French Canadian politician (b. 1838)
- May 15 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
- May 17 - John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer (b. 1804)
- May 23 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795)
- June 13 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria, (b. 1845)
- June 14 - Alexandr Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (b. 1823)
- July 16 - Ned Buntline, American pulp novelist (b. 1823)
- July 31 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)
- August 9 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
- August 11 - Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
- August 16 - Sri Ramakrishna, Bengali saint
- August 30 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr.
- September 3 - William W. Snow, American politician (b. 1812)
- October 8 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819)
- October 18 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
- November 18 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
- November 22 - William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
Events
- January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
- January 29 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
- March 1 - The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
- March 29 - Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
- April 8 - William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
- May 1 - The Haymarket riots in Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois are the start of the general strike which eventually wins the eight-hour workday in the United States. These events are today commemorated as May Day or Labour Day in most industrialized countries.
- May 4 - Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
- May 5 - The Bay View Tragedy occurs, as militia fire upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killing seven.
- May 8 - Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would later be named "Coca-Cola".
- May 29 - Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
- June 1 - The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31.
- June 2 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
- June 10 - Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
- June 13 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
- June 13 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
- June 28 - First scheduled Canadian transcontinental passenger train departs from Montreal, Quebec for Port Moody, British Columbia.
- June 30 - The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
- July 3 - Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen
- July 3 - The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
- July 4 - The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
- July 4 - The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
- August 31 - Earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
- September 4 - Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his remaining warriors to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
- September 9 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
- October 28 - In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- October 29 - The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
- November 1 - Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka was established with 37 students.
- November 30 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
- December 8 - The American Federation of Labor is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
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