Famous People Born In 1886
Discover the most famous people born in 1886. The list includes people like Diego Rivera, Ty Cobb, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, David Ben-Gurion, Siegfried Sassoon and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, soldiers, poets and philosophers born in 1886. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & Austria and many more countries.
Diego Rivera8th December, Mexican
Painter, Muralist
Al Jolson26th May, American
Actor, Singer
Ty Cobb18th December, American
American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder
David Ben-Gurion16th October, Israeli
George Mallory18th June, British, Tibetan
Mountaineer
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe27th March, German
Architect
Alfonso XIII of Spain17th May, Spanish
King of Spain
Frank Nitti27th January, Italian, American
Gangster
Siegfried Sassoon8th September, British
Salvatore Maranzano31st July, American
Mafia Boss
Peter Freuchen2nd February, Danish, American
Explorer
Paul Tillich20th August, German, American
Karl Barth10th May, Swiss
Theologian
Hugo Black27th February, American
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Michael Curtiz24th December, American
Film Director
Edward Weston24th March, American
Photographer
Karl von Frisch20th November, Austrian
Ethologist
Mary Wigman13th November, German
Dancer, Choreographer
Tarsila do Amaral1st September, Brazilian
Artist
Archibald Hill26th September, British
Physiologist
Edward Calvin Kendall8th March, American
Biochemist
Bruce Fairchild Barton5th August, American
American author
Manne Siegbahn3rd December, Swedish
Physicist
Hella Wuolijoki22nd July, Finnish
Writer
Dora Gabe26th August, Bulgarian
Poet
Robert Robinson13th September, British
Scientist
Ed Wynn9th November, American
Actor
Rose Wilder Lane5th December, American
Journalists
Raymond A. Spruance3rd July, American
Officer, Diplomat
Clarence Birdseye9th December, American
Inventor, Engineer
Ernst Thälmann16th April, German
Politician, Worker, Revolutionary, Trade unionist
Theodor Morell22nd July, German
Physician
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Henry H. Arnold25th June, American
Military personnel, Aviator
Ma Rainey26th April, American
Street artist, Musician
Karl Polanyi25th October, Hungarian
Economist, Anthropologist, Economic historian,
Victor McLaglen10th December, British, American
Actor, Boxer
Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII6th April
Politician
Jean Hersholt12th July, Danish, American
Film actor, Actor, Linguist, Writer, Translator
Robert Schuman29th June, French, Luxembourgian
Statesman
Zhu De1st December
Politician
René Guénon15th November, French
Author
Oskar Kokoschka1st March, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Joyce Kilmer6th December, American
Writer
Harold Nicolson21st November, British
Horticulturist, Politician, Diplomat, Diarist,
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort10th July, British
Military personnel
Gotthard Heinrici25th December, German, Russian
Officer, Military personnel
Maithili Sharan Gupt3rd August, Indian
Linguist, Poet, Politician, Translator
Marc Bloch6th July, French
Historian, Medievalist, University teacher, Writer
Béla Kun20th February, Hungarian
Politician, Diplomat, Journalist
Hugo Ball22nd February, German
Writer, Poet, Theatre director
Radhabinod Pal27th January, Indian
Judge, University teacher
Erich Hoepner14th September, German
Soldier
Sergey Kirov27th March, Russian
Politician
Rex Stout1st December, American
American writer
John Bowes-Lyon1st April, British
Stockbroker, Cricketer
Billy Sing2nd March, Australian
Military personnel
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell5th April, British
Physicist, Politician, University teacher
Alain LeRoy Locke13th September, American
teacher, philosopher
Erich Fellgiebel4th October, German
Soldier
Kid Ory25th December, American
bandleader, conductor, jazz musician
Tsuguharu Foujita27th November, French, Japanese
Painter, Artist
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.18th July, American
Bror von Blixen-Finecke25th July, Swedish
Writer, Military personnel
Franz Josef Popp14th January, Austrian
Engineer, Manager, Entrepreneur
Francis Biddle9th May, American
lawyer, judge, screenwriter
Minnie Vautrin27th September, American
Missionary
Raoul Hausmann12th January, Austrian
photographer, writer, sculptor, artist, painter
Edward C. Tolman14th April, American
Psychologist
Aron Nimzowitsch7th November, Danish, Latvian, Russian
Danish-Russian chess master
Gus Kahn6th November, American
Composer, Songwriter, Lyricist, Film score
Kurt Koffka18th March, German
Psychologist, University teacher
Hermann Broch1st November, Austrian
Writer, Playwright
Willem Drees5th July, Dutch
Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Frederic Bartlett20th October, British
Teacher, Psychologist, University teacher
Franz Rosenzweig25th December, German
Philosopher, Translator, Historian, Bible
Edward Bach24th September, British
Physician, Writer, Homeopath
James Van Der Zee29th June, American
Photographer
Giovanni Battista Caproni3rd July, Italian
Civil engineer, Aerospace engineer, Engineer
Gottfried Benn2nd May, German
Poet, Writer, Essayist, Novelist
Frank Lloyd2nd February, British, American
American-British film director
Ernest Burgess16th May, Canadian, American
Sociologist, Criminologist
G. I. Taylor7th March, British
Physicist, Engineer, Mathematician, Meteorologist
Alain-Fournier3rd October, French
French author
Annette Kellerman6th July, Australian
Władysław Tatarkiewicz3rd April
Art historian, Philosopher
Edwin Fischer6th October, Swiss
Swiss classical pianist
Paul Dudley White6th June, American
Physician, Cardiologist, University teacher
Hans Arp16th September, French
Hilda Doolittle10th September, American
Poet
Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze24th October, Georgian, Russian
David Ben Gurion16th October, Israeli
Ștefan Dimitrescu18th January, Romanian
Painter
Randolph Silliman Bourne30th May, American
Edward Rydz-Śmigły11th March, Polish, Ukrainian
Polish Politician
Ğabdulla Tuqay26th April, Russian
Poet
Sir (Alexander) Robert Atkins10th August, British