The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is published (Jan 5), Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile (Jan 29), Coca-Cola is invented (May 8), Arturo Toscanini makes his conducting debut (Jun 25), after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders in Arizona (Sep 4), Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba (Oct 7), the Statue of Liberty is dedicated on Liberty Island (Oct 28) - and all these fine people were born:
1886-0105 Markus Reiner* Israeli scientist/major figure in rheology - Szernowich, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (1976/90)
1886-0107 Amedeo Maiuri* archaelogist/researched Pompeii - Veroli, Italy (1963/77)
1886-0111 Chester Conklin* actor/comedian - Oskaloosa, IA USA (1971/85)
1886-0124 Kersti Bergroth* writer - Viipuri, GD of Finland (1975/89)
1886-0202 Hugo Vasarla* (b Vasenius) leader in the Finnish food industry - Viipuri, GD of Finland (1960/74)
1886-0204 Edward Sheldon* dramatist - Chicago, IL USA (1946/60)
1886-0210 Pia Nalli* mathematician/teacher - Palermo, Italy (1964/78)
1886-0221 Howard Dwight Smith* architect - Dayton, OH USA (1958/72)
1886-0227 Hugo Black* lawyer/ politician/senator - Harlan, AL USA (1971/85)
1886-0301 Viktor Jansson* sculptor/father of Tove Jansson - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1958/72)
1886-0301 Oskar Kokoschka* artist/ playwright/teacher - Pöchlarn, Austria-Hungary (1980/93)
1886-0302 Friedebert Tuglas* writer/ critic - Ahja, Estonia (1971/85)
1886-0305 Paul Radmilovic* athlete (water polo player/OG & swimmer/OGr) - Cardiff, Wales (1968/82)
1886-0306 Ola Solberg* newspaper editor/politician - Heradsbygd, Elverum, Norway (1977/)
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1886-0315 Sergey Kirov* Bolshevik leader - Urzhum, Russian Empire (1934/48)
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1886-0331 Henrik Ramsay* economist/politician - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1951/65)
1886-0403 Paul Hansen* opera singer/actor - Copenhagen, Denmark (1967/81)
1886-0416 Margaret Woodrow Wilson* singer/the White House social hostess/promoter of hinduism - Gainesville, GA USA (1944/57)
1886-0430 Dick Elliott* actor - Boston, MA USA (1961/75)
1886-0503 Marcel Dupré* organist/composer/ pedagogue - Rouen, France (1971/85)
1886-0510 Karl Barth* Calvinist theologian - Basel, Switzerland (1968/82)
1886-0520 John Jacob Astor* American-British nobleman/racket player/OG /entrepreneur/to England at age 5 - Manhattan, NY USA (1971/85)
1886-0526 Al Jolson* (b Asa Yoelson) Lithuanian-American singer/ comedian/actor - Seredzius, Russian Empire (1950/64)
1886-0526 Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche* engineer/sank with the Titanic - Cap-Haïtien, Haiti (1912/25)
1886-0618 George Mallory* mountaineer - Mobberley, Cheshire, England (1924/37) body discovered 1999
1886-0629 James Van Der Zee* photographer - Lenox, MA USA (1983/96)
1886-0630 Mark Aitchison Young* Governor of Hong Kong - British Raj (1974/87)
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1886-0711 Boris Grigoriev* painter/graphic artist/ author - Rybinsk, Russian Empire (1939/52)
1886-0711 Ernest Willows* pioneer aviator/airship builder - Cardiff, Wales (1926/40)
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1886-0722 Hella Wuolijoki* (b Murrik) Finnish author - Helme, Livonia, Russian Empire (1954/67)
1886-0731 Fred Quimby* cartoon producer - Morton, MN USA (1965/79)
1886-0802 John Alexander Douglas McCurdy* aviation pioneer/Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia - Baddeck, NS Canada (1961/74)
1886-0806 Inez Milholland* leading American suffragist/public speaker - Brooklyn, NY USA (1916/30)
1886-0820 Paul Tillich* German-American Christian existentialist philosopher/theologian/to U.S. at age 47 - Starzeddel, Prussia, German Empire (1965/79)
1886-0821 Emily Tinne* British collector of clothes - Calcutta, British India (1966/79)
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1886-0827 Rebecca Clarke* British-American violist/composer - Harrow, England (1979/93)
1886-0827 Eric Coates* violist/ composer - Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, England (1957/71)
1886-0828 Andrew Higgins* boatbuilder (LCVP)/ businessman - Columbus, NE USA (1952/65)
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1886-0908 Siegfried Sassoon* poet/writer/soldier - Matfield, Kent, England (1967/80)
1886-0910 Hilda “H.D.” Doolittle* poet/novelist/ memoirist - Bethlehem, PA USA (1961/75)
1886-0913 Robert Robinson* organic chemist/N - Derbyshire, England (1975/88)
1886-0925 Louis Agassiz Shaw Jr.* physician/ scientist/co-inventor of the iron lung - Chestnut Hill, MA USA (1940/53)
1886-0926 Archibald Hill* physiologist/N - Bristol, England (1977/90)
1886-1006 Edwin Fischer* classical pianist/conductor - Basel, Switzerland (1960/73)
1886-1016 David Ben-Gurion* politician/the first Prime Minister of Israel - Plónsk, Poland, Russian Empire (1973/87)
1886-1106 Ida Barney* astronomer - New Haven, CT USA (1982/95)
1886-1111 Alice Huyler Ramsey* first woman to drive across the United States from coast to coast - New Barbadoes Township, NJ USA (1983/96)
1886-1114 Bess Allison* (b Daniels) mother of two/went down with the Titanic – Canada (1912/25)
1886-1120 Karl von Frisch* ethologist/N - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1982/95)
1886-1121 Harold Nicolson* British diplomat/author/ diarist - Tehran, Persian Empire (1968/81)
1886-1203 Manne Siegbahn* physicist/N - Örebro, Sweden (1978/91)
1886-1208 Diego Rivera* painter/husband of Frida Kahlo - Guanajuato, Mexico (1957/70)
1886-1212 Owen Moore* Irish-American actor/ex-husband of Mary Pickford/to U.S at age 10 – County Meath, Ireland (1939/52)
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