Year (''' MDCCCLXXXVI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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The last surviving person documented as born in 1886 was Marie Brémont (April 25) who died on June 6 2001 , aged 115.
- January 2 - Florence Lawrence , Canadian-born actress (d. 1938 )
- January 11 - Chester Conklin , American actor (d. 1971 )
- January 14 - Hugh Lofting , English-born author (d. 1947 )
- January 18 - Clara Nordström , German writer and translator (d. 1962 )
- January 25 - Wilhelm Furtwängler , German conductor (d. 1954 )
- February 8 - Charles Ruggles , American actor (d. 1970 )
- February 27 - Hugo Black , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971 )
- March 1 - Oskar Kokoschka , Austrian artist and poet (d. 1980 )
- March 2 - Willis O'Brien , Stop Motion animator (d. 1962 )
- March 3 - Tore Ørjasæter , Norwegian poet (d. 1968 )
- March 7 - Jacques Majorelle , French painter (d. 1962 )
- March 8 - Edward Calvin Kendall , American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1972 )
- March 11 - Edward Rydz-Śmigły , Polish politician, Marshal Of Poland (d. 1941 )
- March 15 - Sergei Kirov , Soviet revolutionary (d. 1934 )
- March 18
- --- Edward Everett Horton , American actor (d. 1970 )
- --- Lothar Von Arnauld De La Perière , German U-boat ace (d. 1941 )
- March 24 - Edward Weston , American photographer (d. 1958 )
- March 25 - Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople (d. 1972 )
- March 27 - Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe , German architect (d. 1969 )
- April 14 - Ernst Robert Curtius , Alsatian philologist (d. 1956 )
- April 15 - Tadeusz Kutrzeba , Polish General (d. 1947 )
- April 26 - Ma Rainey , American singer (d. 1939 )
- May 2 - Gottfried Benn , German poet (d. 1956 )
- May 3 - Marcel Dupré , French composer (d. 1971 )
- May 10
- --- Karl Barth , Swiss Protestant Theologian (d. 1968 )
- --- Olaf Stapledon , British author and philosopher (d. 1950 )
- May 17 - King Alfonso XIII Of Spain (d. 1941 )
- May 18 - Ture Nerman , Swedish communist leader (d. 1969 )
- May 20 - John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor Of Hever , British businessman (d. 1971 )
- May 26 - Al Jolson , American entertainer (d. 1950 )
- June 7 - Henri Coandă , Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972 )
- June 18 - George Mallory , English climber (d. 1924 )
- June 24 - George Shiels , Northern Irish dramatist (d. 1949 )
- July 3 - Raymond A. Spruance , American admiral and ambassador (d. 1969 )
- July 12 - Jean Hersholt , Danish-born actor (d. 1956 )
- July 23 - Walter H. Schottky , German physicist (d. 1976 )
- July 24 - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Japanese writer (d. 1965 )
- July 25 - Bror Von Blixen-Finecke , Danish big-game hunter (d. 1946 )
- August 27
- --- Rebecca Helferich Clarke , English composer and violist (d. 1979 )
- --- Eric Coates , English composer (d. 1957 )
- September 4 - Albert Orsborn , the 6th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967 )
- September 13 - Robert Robinson , British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975 )
- September 14 - Jan Masaryk , Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (d. 1948 )
- September 16 - Jean Arp , Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (d. 1966 )
- September 20 - Charles Williams , British author (d. 1945 )
- September 24 - Roberto María Ortiz , President Of Argentina (d. 1942 )
- September 26 - Archibald Vivian Hill , English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977 )
- September 28 - Alice Hollister , American silent film actress. (d. 1973 )
- October 6 - Edwin Fischer , Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960 )
- October 16 - David Ben-Gurion , first Prime Minister Of Israel (d. 1973 )
- November 1 - Hermann Broch , Austrian author (d. 1951 )
- November 9 - Ed Wynn , American actor (d. 1966 )
- November 15 - René Guénon , French-Egyptian author (d. 1951 )
- November 20 - Karl Von Frisch , Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1982 )
- December 3 - Manne Siegbahn , Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978 )
- December 5 - Rose Lane, Née Wilder , American author and reporter and daughter of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. October 30 , 1968 )
- December 8 - Diego Rivera , Mexican painter (d. 1957 )
- December 12 - Owen Moore , Irish actor (d. 1939 )
- December 18 - Ty Cobb , Baseball Hall Of Fame r (d. 1961 )
- December 25 - Kid Ory , American jazz musician (d. 1973 )
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- July 1 - Otto Wilhelm Hermann Von Abich , German geologist (b. 1806 )
- July 31 - Franz Liszt , Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1811 )
- August 9 - Samuel Ferguson , Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810 )
- August 11 - Lydia Koidula , Estonian poet (b. 1843 )
- August 16 - Ramakrishna Paramhansa , Indian spiritual figure (b. 1836 )
- August 30 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr. , American politician (b. 1836 )
- September 3 - William W. Snow , American politician (b. 1812 )
- September 14 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard , American land speculator (b. 1802 )
- October 8 - Austin F. Pike , American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819 )
- November 18 - Chester A. Arthur , 21st President Of The United States (b. 1829 )
- November 20 - William Bliss Baker , American painter (b. 1859 )
- December 8 - William Fraser Tolmie , Scottish-Canadian scientist and politician (b. 1812 )
- ''date unknown'' - Andrew Nicholl , Northern Irish painter (b. 1804 )
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