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.
Alfonso XIII of Spain17th May, Spanish
King of Spain
Diego Rivera8th December, Mexican
Painter, Muralist
Ty Cobb18th December, American
American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder
Al Jolson26th May, American
Actor, Singer
Salvatore Maranzano31st July, American
Mafia Boss
Frank Nitti27th January, Italian, American
Gangster
David Ben-Gurion16th October, Israeli
George Mallory18th June, British, Tibetan
Mountaineer
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe27th March, German
Architect
Michael Curtiz24th December, American
Film Director
Siegfried Sassoon8th September, British
Hugo Black27th February, American
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Karl Barth10th May, Swiss
Theologian
Henry H. Arnold25th June, American
Military Leader
Paul Tillich20th August, German, American
Peter Freuchen2nd February, Danish, American
Explorer
Edward Weston24th March, American
Photographer
Karl von Frisch20th November, Austrian
Ethologist
Tarsila do Amaral1st September, Brazilian
Artist
Mary Wigman13th November, German
Dancer, Choreographer
Archibald Hill26th September, British
Physiologist
Bruce Fairchild Barton5th August, American
American author
Manne Siegbahn3rd December, Swedish
Physicist
Edward Calvin Kendall8th March, American
Biochemist
Hella Wuolijoki22nd July, Finnish
Writer
Robert Robinson13th September, British
Scientist
Dora Gabe26th August, Bulgarian
Poet
Ed Wynn9th November, American
Actor
Rose Wilder Lane5th December, American
Journalists
Theodor Morell22nd July, German
Physician
Victor McLaglen10th December, British, American
Actor, Boxer
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Raymond A. Spruance3rd July, American
Officer, Diplomat
Bill James6th March, British
Actor
Ma Rainey26th April, American
Street artist, Musician
Radhabinod Pal27th January, Indian
Judge, University teacher
Ernst Thälmann16th April, German
Politician, Worker, Revolutionary, Trade unionist
Clarence Birdseye9th December, American
Inventor, Engineer
Ben Rothwell6th July, American
Actor
René Guénon15th November, French
Author
Marc Bloch6th July, French
Historian, Medievalist, University teacher, Writer
Karl Polanyi25th October, Hungarian
Economist, Anthropologist, Economic historian,
Gotthard Heinrici25th December, German, Russian
Officer, Military personnel
Billy Sing2nd March, Australian
Military personnel
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort10th July, British
Military personnel
Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII6th April, Indian
Prince
Zhu De1st December
Politician
Joyce Kilmer6th December, American
Writer
Harold Nicolson21st November, British
Horticulturist, Politician, Diplomat, Diarist,
Béla Kun20th February, Hungarian
Politician, Diplomat, Journalist
Oskar Kokoschka1st March, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Robert Schuman29th June, French, Luxembourgian
Statesman
Hugh Lofting14th January, British
Author
Jean Hersholt12th July, Danish, American
Film actor, Actor, Linguist, Writer, Translator
Alain LeRoy Locke13th September, American
teacher, philosopher
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell5th April, British
Physicist, Politician, University teacher
Jean Arp16th September, German, French
Sculptor
Erich Hoepner14th September, German
Soldier
Hugo Ball22nd February, German
Writer, Poet, Theatre director
John Bowes-Lyon1st April, British
Stockbroker, Cricketer
Rex Stout1st December, American
American writer
Giovanni Battista Caproni3rd July, Italian
Civil engineer, Aerospace engineer, Engineer
Olaf Stapledon10th May, British
Philosopher
Minnie Vautrin27th September, American
Missionary
Sergey Kirov27th March, Russian
Politician
Maithili Sharan Gupt3rd August, Indian
Linguist, Poet, Politician, Translator
Sergo Ordzhonikidze24th October, Georgian, Russian
Politician
Bror von Blixen-Finecke25th July, Swedish
Writer, Military personnel
Edward Rydz-Śmigły11th March, Polish, Ukrainian
Polish Politician
Erich Fellgiebel4th October, German
Soldier
Richard Mulcahy10th May, Irish
Politician
Jan Masaryk14th September, Czech
Diplomat
Edward C. Tolman14th April, American
Psychologist
Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg2nd March, German
Military General
Francis Biddle9th May, American
lawyer, judge, screenwriter
Chester Barnard7th November, American
Business Executive
Aron Nimzowitsch7th November, Danish, Latvian, Russian
Danish-Russian chess master
Franz Josef Popp14th January, Austrian
Engineer, Manager, Entrepreneur
Raoul Hausmann12th January, Austrian
photographer, writer, sculptor, artist, painter
Kid Ory25th December, American
bandleader, conductor, jazz musician
Stanley Ketchel14th September, American
Boxer
Tsuguharu Foujita27th November, French, Japanese
Painter, Artist
Willem Drees5th July, Dutch
Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Marcel Dupré3rd May, French
Musician
Gus Kahn6th November, American
Composer, Songwriter, Lyricist, Film score
Gottfried Benn2nd May, German
Poet, Writer, Essayist, Novelist
Frank Lloyd2nd February, British, American
American-British film director
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.18th July, American
Robert L. Eichelberger9th March, American
Military General
James Van Der Zee29th June, American
Photographer
Alain-Fournier3rd October, French
French author
Hermann Broch1st November, Austrian
Writer, Playwright
Frederic Bartlett20th October, British
Teacher, Psychologist, University teacher
Franz Rosenzweig25th December, German
Philosopher, Translator, Historian, Bible
Kurt Koffka18th March, German
Psychologist, University teacher