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1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI ) was acommon year starting on Friday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Wednesday of theJulian calendar , the 1886th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 86th year of the19th century , and the 7th year of the1880s decade. As of the start of 1886, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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May 8 :Coca-Cola invented.June 10 :Mount Tarawera erupts.November 30 :Folies Bergère .November 1 – The biggest Buddhist boys' school in Sri Lanka,Ananda College , is founded in Colombo.November 3 – In theBritish Raj , what will become one of the biggest boys' schools in Pakistan,Aitchison College ,Lahore , is founded under the auspices of SirCharles Umpherston Aitchison .November 11 –Heinrich Hertz verifies the existence ofelectromagnetic waves , at theUniversity of Karlsruhe .November 14 – German inventorFriedrich Soennecken first develops the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.November 15 – TheWerkstätte für Feinmechanik und Elektrotechnik (Workshop for Fine Mechanics and Electronics ) is founded inBaden-Württemberg ,Germany byRobert Bosch . The company will later become thehome appliance andpower tool brand ,Robert Bosch GmbH .[ 4] November 30 – TheFolies Bergère November – The extremely harshwinter of 1886–87 in the United States begins, killing tens of thousands of cattle on theGreat Plains of North America.Wilhelm Furtwängler Alfonso López Pumarejo Oskar Kokoschka January 2 –Apsley Cherry-Garrard , English polar explorer with theTerra Nova expedition and author ofThe Worst Journey in the World January 2 –Florence Lawrence , Canadian-born American actress (d.1938 ) January 2 –Elise Ottesen-Jensen , Norwegian-Swedish feminist (d. 1973) January 5 –Markus Reiner , Israeli scientist (d.1976 )January 7 –Amedeo Maiuri , Italian archaeologist (d.1963 )January 11 January 13 –Sophie Tucker , Russian-born American singer, comedian (d.1966 )January 14 –Hugh Lofting , English-born American author (d.1947 )January 17 –Joe Masseria , Italian-born American gangster (d.1931 )January 25 –Wilhelm Furtwängler , German conductor (d.1954 )January 27 –Frank Nitti , Italian-born American gangster (d.1943 )January 28 –Hidetsugu Yagi , Japanese electrical engineer (d.1976 )January 31 –Alfonso López Pumarejo , 14th and 16th President of Colombia (d.1959 )February 2 –Frank Lloyd , English-born American film director, scriptwriter and producer (d.1960 )February 4 –Edward Sheldon , American playwright (d.1946 )February 7 –Yehezkel Abramsky , Russian-born British rabbi (d.1976 )February 8 –Charlie Ruggles , American actor (d.1970 )February 9 –Edwin Maxwell , Irish actor (d.1948 )February 12 –Margarita Fischer , American silent film actress (d.1975 )February 17 –Aeneas Francon Williams , English missionary, Church of Scotland minister, writer and poet (d.1971 )February 19 –José Abad Santos , Filipino jurist, lawyer (d.1942 )February 22 –Oskar Kokoschka , Austrian artist and poet (d.1980 )February 27 –Hugo Black ,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.1971 )Kazimierz Świtalski Kálmán Darányi Margaret Woodrow Wilson March 2 March 4 –Kazimierz Świtalski , Polish diplomat, politician, soldier and military officer, 18thPrime Minister of Poland (d.1962 )March 6 March 7 –Virginia Pearson , American silent film actress (d.1958 )March 8 –Edward Calvin Kendall , American chemist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1972 )March 9 –Robert L. Eichelberger , American general (d.1961 )March 11 –Edward Rydz-Śmigły , Polish politician,Marshal of Poland (d.1941 )March 15 –Sergey Kirov , Soviet revolutionary (d.1934 )March 18 March 19 –Giuseppe Mario Bellanca , Italian-born American airplane designer, manufacturer (d.1960 )March 20 –Grace Brown , American murder victim whose story became a famous court case (d.1906 )March 22 –Kálmán Darányi , 31st Prime Minister of Hungary (d.1939 )March 24 –Edward Weston , American photographer (d.1958 )March 25 –Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (d.1972 )March 27 –Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , German architect (d.1969 )April 4 –William R. Munroe , American admiral (d.1966 )April 5 –Gustavo Jiménez , President of Peru (d.1933 )April 14 –Ernst Robert Curtius , Alsatian philologist (d.1956 )April 16 April 26 –Ma Rainey , American singer (d.1939 )April 30 –Dick Elliott , American actor (d.1961 )KingAlfonso XIII of Spain Al Jolson May 2 –Gottfried Benn , German poet (d.1956 )May 3 –Marcel Dupré , French composer (d.1971 )May 5 –Émile Eddé , 4th Prime Minister and 3rd President of Lebanon (d.1949 )May 10 May 17 – KingAlfonso XIII of Spain (d.1941 )May 18 –Ture Nerman , Swedish communist leader (d.1969 )May 20 –John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever , American-born British businessman (d.1971 )May 26 –Al Jolson , American entertainer (d.1950 )June 6 –William A. Glassford , American admiral (d.1958 )[ 8] June 7 –Henri Coandă , Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d.1972 )June 9 –Kosaku Yamada , Japanese composer, conductor (d.1965 )June 18 –George Mallory , English climber (d.1924 )June 23 –Olaf M. Hustvedt , American admiral (d.1978 )June 24 –Ion Gigurtu , 42nd Prime Minister of Romania (d.1959 )June 25 –Henry H. Arnold , American general, aviation pioneer (d.1950 )June 28 –Hitoshi Imamura , Japanese general (d.1968 )June 29 –Robert Schuman , German-French politician, afounding father of the European Union (d.1963 )Willem Drees Walter H. Schottky July 3 July 5 –Willem Drees , Dutch politician and historian, 30thPrime Minister of the Netherlands (d.1988 )July 6 –Lou Skuce , Canadian cartoonist (d.1951 )July 12 –Jean Hersholt , Danish-born American actor (d.1956 )July 15 –William Edmunds , Italian stage, screen character actor (d.1981 )July 18 –Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. , American general (d.1945 )July 23 –Walter H. Schottky , German physicist (d.1976 )July 24 –Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Japanese writer (d.1965 )July 25 –Bror von Blixen-Finecke , Swedish big-game hunter (d.1946 )July 31 –Fred Quimby , American film producer (d. 1965)August 2 –John Alexander Douglas McCurdy , Canadian aviation pioneer, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d.1961 )August 6 August 12 –Campbell Tait , British admiral and Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d.1946 )August 20 –Paul Tillich , German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, theologian (d.1965 )August 26 –Ceferino Namuncurá , ArgentineRoman Catholic lay brother and blessed (d.1905 )August 27 August 28 –Andrew Higgins , American boatbuilder, industrialist (d.1952 )Roberto María Ortiz Archibald Hill David Ben-Gurion September 1 September 5 –Nell Brinkley , American illustrator, comic artist (d.1944 )September 8 –Siegfried Sassoon , British poet (d.1967 )September 11 –Khaled Chehab , 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d.1978 )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 , English novelist, playwright, poet, theologian and critic (d.1945 )September 24 September 25 –Nobutake Kondō , Japanese admiral (d.1953 )September 26 –Archibald Hill , English physiologist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1977 )September 30 –Wilhelm Marschall , German admiral (d.1976 )[ 10] October 3 –Alain-Fournier , French writer (killed in action1914 )October 6 –Edwin Fischer , Swiss pianist, conductor (d.1960 )October 11 –Conrad Helfrich , Dutch admiral (d.1962 )October 14 –Salvador Moreno Fernández , Spanish admiral and politician (d.1966 )[ 11] October 15 –Jonas H. Ingram , American admiral (d.1952 )October 16 –David Ben-Gurion , Polish-born firstPrime Minister of Israel (d.1973 )October 17 –Spring Byington , American actress (d.1971 )October 22 –Oscar Griswold , American general (d.1959 )October 30 –Zoë Akins , American playwright, poet and author (d.1958 )Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi Diego Rivera Ty Cobb November 1 –Hermann Broch , Austrian author (d.1951 )November 2 –Gheorghe Tătărescu , 2-time prime minister of Romania (d.1957 )November 6 –André Marty ,French Communist Party leader (d.1956 )November 9 –Ed Wynn , American actor (d.1966 )November 10 –Walden L. Ainsworth , American admiral (d.1960 )November 11 –Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi , 11thPrime Minister of Iraq (d.1969 )November 12 –Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera , Spanish prince, military aviator (d.1975 )November 15 –René Guénon , French-Egyptian author (d.1951 )November 17 –Walter Terence Stace , British philosopher (d.1967 )November 18 –Ferenc Münnich , 47th Prime Minister of Hungary (d.1967 )November 20 –Karl von Frisch , Austrian zoologist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1982 )November 26 –Margaret C. Anderson , American publisher, editor (d.1973 )December 2 –Lester P. Barlow , American inventor and engineer (d.1967 )December 3 –Manne Siegbahn , Swedish physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1978 )December 5 December 8 –Diego Rivera , Mexican painter (d.1957 )December 10 –Victor McLaglen , English actor, boxer (d.1959 )December 12 –Owen Moore , Irish-born American actor (d.1939 )December 18 –Ty Cobb , American baseball player and a member of theBaseball Hall of Fame (d.1961 )December 25 December 26 –Gyula Gömbös , 30th Prime Minister of Hungary (d.1936 )December 30 –Austin Osman Spare , English artist, magician (d.1956 )Emily Dickinson Ludwig II of Bavaria January 16 –Amilcare Ponchielli , Italian composer (b.1834 )[ 15] January 18 –Baldassare Verazzi , Italian painter (b.1819 )January 26 –David Rice Atchison , American politician (b.1807 )February 9 –Winfield Scott Hancock , Union general of the American Civil War, Democratic political candidate (b.1824 )February 10 –Laura Don , American actress (b.1852 )February 12 –Horatio Seymour ,18th Governor of New York ,1868 Democratic Party presidential nominee (b.1810 )February 15 –Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell , British politician (b.1813 )February 18 –Dave Rudabaugh , American outlaw, gunfighter (b.1854 )February 24 –Hugh Stowell Brown ,Manx preacher (b.1823 )March 9 –William S. Clark , American chemist (b.1826 )March 17 –Pierre-Jules Hetzel , French editor, publisher (b.1814 )April 9 –Joseph Victor von Scheffel , German poet (b.1826 )April 16 –Andrew Nicholl , Northern Irish painter (b.1804 )April 20 –Louis Melsens , Belgian chemist and physicist (b.1814 )April 27 –Henry Hobson Richardson , American architect (b.1838 )May 9 –Facundo Bacardí , Cuban rum manufacturer (b.1814 )May 15 –Emily Dickinson , American poet (b.1830 )[ 16] May 17 –John Deere , American inventor (b.1804 )May 23 –Leopold von Ranke , German historian (b.1795 )June 13 June 19 –Sir Charles Trevelyan , British civil servant and colonial administrator (b.1807 )June 21 –Daniel Dunglas Home , Scottish medium (b.1833 )Franz Liszt Eliza Lynch Chester A. Arthur July 1 –Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich , German geologist (b.1806 )July 4 July 16 –Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), American publisher, dime novelist and publicist (b.1821 )July 25 –Eliza Lynch , First Lady of Paraguay (b.1833 )July 31 –Franz Liszt , Hungarian pianist, composer (b.1811 )August 4 –Samuel J. Tilden ,25th Governor of New York ,1876 Democratic Party presidential nominee (b.1814 )August 9 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 4 –Benjamin F. Cheatham , Confederate general (b.1820 )September 14 –Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard , American land speculator (b.1802 )September 25 –Hannah T. King , British-born American writer and pioneer (b.1808 )October 6 –Edward William Godwin , English architect (b.1833 )October 8 –Austin F. 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