Editing 1886

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== Events ==

=== January–March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Upper Burma]] is formally annexed to [[British rule in Burma|British Burma]], following its conquest in the [[Third Anglo-Burmese War]] of [[November]] [[1885]].
* [[January 5]]&ndash;[[January 9|9]] &ndash; [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s novella ''[[Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]'' is published in New York and London.
* [[January 16]] &ndash; A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the [[Prussian deportations]], the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from [[Prussia]], initiated by [[Otto von Bismarck]].
* [[January 18]] &ndash; Modern [[field hockey]] is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Karl Benz]] patents the first successful [[gasoline]]-driven [[automobile]], the [[Benz Patent-Motorwagen]] (built in [[1885]]).
* [[February 6]]&ndash;[[February 9|9]] &ndash; [[Seattle riot of 1886]]: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington.
* [[February 8]] &ndash; The [[West End Riots]] following a popular meeting in [[Trafalgar Square]], [[London]].
* [[February 14]] &ndash; The first trainload of [[Orange (fruit)|oranges]] leaves Los Angeles via the [[Transcontinental railroad#United States|United States transcontinental railroad]].
* [[March 1]] &ndash; The [[Anglo-Chinese School]] is founded by Bishop [[William Fitzjames Oldham]] at 70 Amoy Street, [[Singapore]].
* [[March 3]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Bucharest (1886)|Treaty of Bucharest]] ends the [[Serbo-Bulgarian War]] in the Balkans.
* [[March 16]] &ndash; A law establishing the [[Kiel Canal]] is adopted in the [[German Empire]].
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Carrollton Massacre]]: 20 [[African American]]s are killed in [[Mississippi]].
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Steinitz]] becomes the first recognized World Chess Champion.
* March &ndash; [[Gottlieb Daimler]] assembles his first automobile, in Germany.

=== April–June ===
[[File:Coca-Cola bottle cap.svg|thumb|140px|right| [[May 8]]: [[Coca-Cola]] invented.]]
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[William Ewart Gladstone]] introduces the [[Government of Ireland Bill 1886|First Irish Home Rule Bill]] in the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]; it is defeated on [[June 8]].
* [[April 6]] &ndash; The settlement of [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], is incorporated.
* [[April 24]] &ndash; Father [[Augustine Tolton]], the first [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|Roman Catholic priest]] from the United States to identify himself publicly as [[African American]], is ordained in [[Rome]].
* [[April]] &ndash; The [[Svenska drägtreformföreningen|Swedish Dress Reform Society]] is established. 
* [[May 1]] &ndash; A [[general strike]] begins in the United States, which escalates on [[May 4]] into the [[Haymarket affair]] in Chicago, and eventually wins the [[eight-hour day]] for workers.
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Emile Berliner]] starts work that leads to the invention of the [[Phonograph|gramophone]].
* [[May 8]] &ndash; American pharmacist Dr. [[John Pemberton]] invents a [[carbonated]] beverage that will be named '[[Coca-Cola]]'.
* [[May 15]] &ndash; Portugal and France agree to regulate the borders of their colonies in Guinea.
* [[May 17]]
** ''[[Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad]]'': The [[U.S. Supreme Court]] rules that [[corporations]] have the same rights as living persons.
** [[Motherwell Football Club]] is founded in Scotland.
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[John Pemberton]] begins to advertise [[Coca-Cola]] (in ''[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution#The Atlanta Journal|The Atlanta Journal]]'').
* [[June 2]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Grover Cleveland]] marries [[Frances Folsom]] in the [[White House]] (Washington, D.C.), becoming the only [[President of the United States]] to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Uganda Martyrs]]: [[Charles Lwanga]], 12 other Catholic boys and men, and 9 Anglicans, are burned (and another Catholic speared) to death, at the orders of Kabaka [[Mwanga II of Buganda]] in [[Namugongo]].
[[Image:Lake Tarawera.jpg|thumb|160px|right| [[June 10]]: [[Mount Tarawera]] erupts.]]
* [[June 10]] &ndash; The  [[1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera|Mount Tarawera volcano erupts]] in [[New Zealand]], resulting in the deaths of over 150 people and the destruction of the famous [[Pink and White Terraces]].
* [[June 12]] &ndash; King [[Ludwig II of Bavaria]] is detained as part of a deposition, drowning the following day under mysterious circumstances. Six weeks later his unfinished [[Neuschwanstein Castle]] is opened to the public.
* [[June 13]]
** The [[Great Vancouver Fire]] devastates much of [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]].
** A large [[1886 St. Croix River log jam|log jam]] forms on the [[St. Croix River (Wisconsin–Minnesota)|St. Croix River]] near [[Taylors Falls]], [[Minnesota]]
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[Arturo Toscanini]] makes his conducting debut, with an Italian opera company visiting [[Rio de Janeiro]].
* [[June 30]] &ndash; The [[Royal Holloway, University of London|Royal Holloway College]] for women is opened by [[Queen Victoria]], near London, England.

=== July–September ===
[[File:FolliesBergereBoxCostume.jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[November 30]]: [[Folies Bergère]].]]
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Karl Benz]] officially unveils the [[Benz Patent Motorwagen]].
* [[July 9]] &ndash; American inventor [[Charles Martin Hall]] files a patent for his inexpensive method of refining [[aluminium]] (discovered on February 23); independently and near-simultaneously discovered in France by [[Paul Héroult]] it becomes known as the [[Hall–Héroult process]].
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[Steve Brodie (bridge jumper)|Steve Brodie]] is reported to have made a jump from the [[Brooklyn Bridge]], a claim subsequently disputed.
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]] becomes [[Prime Minister]] of the United Kingdom.
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Nagasaki Incident]]: Chinese troops riot during shore leave in Nagasaki, Japan.
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)|The Christian Union (Church of God)]] is established in [[Monroe County, Tennessee]]
* [[August 20]] &ndash; A massive [[hurricane]] demolishes the town of [[Indianola, Texas]].
* [[August 31]] &ndash; The 7.0 {{M|w}} [[1886 Charleston earthquake|Charleston earthquake]] affects southeastern South Carolina, with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of X (''Extreme''); 60 people are killed, and damage is estimated at [[United States dollar|$]]5–6&nbsp;million.
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Grasshopper Club Zürich]] is founded as the first football club in the Swiss city of [[Zürich]] by English students.
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[American Indian Wars]]: After almost 30 years of fighting, [[Apache]] leader [[Geronimo]] surrenders, with his last band of warriors, to General [[Nelson Miles]], at [[Skeleton Canyon]] in [[Arizona]].
* [[September 9]] &ndash; The [[Berne Convention]] for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is signed.
* [[September 21]] &ndash; American physicist [[William Stanley Jr.]] patents the first practical [[alternating current]] [[transformer]] device, the [[induction coil]].

=== October–December ===
* [[October 7]] &ndash; Spain abolishes [[slavery in Cuba]].
*[[October 24]] &ndash; The British merchant vessel ''Normanton'' sinks off the coast of Japan, triggering the [[Normanton incident]].
* [[October 28]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Grover Cleveland]] dedicates the [[Statue of Liberty]], a gift from France, in [[New York Harbor]]. The ensuing spontaneous celebration in New York City leads to the first [[ticker tape parade]].
* [[November]] &ndash; The extremely harsh [[winter of 1886–87 in the United States]] begins, killing tens of thousands of cattle on the [[Great Plains]] of North America.
* [[November 1]] &ndash; The biggest Buddhist boys' school in Sri Lanka, [[Ananda College]], is founded in Colombo.
* [[November 3]] &ndash; In the [[British Raj]], what will become one of the biggest boys' schools in Pakistan, [[Aitchison College]], [[Lahore]], is founded under the auspices of Sir [[Charles Umpherston Aitchison]].
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Hertz]] verifies the existence of [[electromagnetic waves]], at the [[University of Karlsruhe]].
* [[November 14]] &ndash; German inventor [[Friedrich Soennecken]] first develops the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
* [[November 15]] &ndash; The ''Werkstätte für Feinmechanik und Elektrotechnik'' (''Workshop for Fine Mechanics and Electronics'') is founded in [[Baden-Württemberg]], [[Germany]] by [[Robert Bosch]]. The company will later become the [[home appliance]] and [[Power tool|power tool brand]], [[Robert Bosch GmbH]].<ref>{{cite web | last=Kultur | first=SWR | title=15.11.1886: Robert Bosch eröffnet in Stuttgart eine Werkstatt |trans-title=15 November 1886: Robert Bosch opens a workshop in Stuttgart| website=swr.online | date=8 November 2021 | url=https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/15111886-robert-bosch-eroeffnet-in-stuttgart-eine-werkstatt-100.html | language=de | access-date=1 June 2024}}</ref>
* [[November 30]] &ndash; The ''[[Folies Bergère]]'' stages its first revue in Paris.
* [[December 11]] &ndash; London [[Association football]] club [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]], founded as Dial Square by workers at the [[Royal Arsenal]] in [[Woolwich]], [[History of Arsenal F.C. (1886–1966)|play their first match]] (on the [[Isle of Dogs]]). The club is renamed Royal Arsenal soon afterwards, supposedly on [[December 25]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Phil|last1=Soar|first2=Martin|last2=Tyler|title=The Official Illustrated History of Arsenal|location=London|publisher=Hamlyn|year=2005|page=23|isbn=978-0-600-61344-2}}</ref>
* [[December 17]] &ndash; English adventurer [[Thomas Stevens (cyclist)|Thomas Stevens]] concludes the first [[circumnavigation]] by [[bicycle]] in [[Yokohama]], having set out on his [[penny-farthing]] from [[San Francisco]] in [[1884]].

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Addis Ababa]] is founded in the [[Ethiopian Empire]].
* The village of [[Skorenovac]] is founded in Serbia, mostly by [[Székelys|Székely]] [[Hungarians]].
* [[Scotch whisky]] distiller [[William Grant & Sons]] is founded.
* [[Yorkshire Tea]] is established in [[Harrogate]], England.
* [[Johnson & Johnson]], which becomes a multinational brand, begins manufacturing [[healthcare]] products in [[New Jersey]], United States.
*[[Avon Products]], a worldwide [[cosmetics]] and [[household]] brand is founded in [[New York City]], United States.{{page needed|date=May 2020}}
*[[Food product]] and [[Food processing|processing brand]] [[Del Monte Foods]] is founded in [[California]], United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our History |url=https://www.delmonte.com/our-story/our-history |access-date=2022-05-19 |website=Del Monte |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Emily Ruete]] publishes her landmark [[memoir]], ''Memoirs of an Arabian Princess: An Autobiography''.<ref name="WDL">{{cite book|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11754/|title=Memoirs of an Arabian Princess: An Autobiography|via=[[World Digital Library]]|year=1888|publisher=D. Appleton and Company|access-date=2013-09-19}}</ref>
* [[Bedford Blues|Bedford Rugby Club]] is formed in England.

== Births ==

=== January–February ===
[[File:Wilhelm Furtwängler.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Wilhelm Furtwängler]]]]
[[File:Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo.jpg|thumb|112x112px|[[Alfonso López Pumarejo]]]]
[[File:Oskar Kokoschka (1963) by Erling Mandelmann.jpg|thumb|upright|110px|[[Oskar Kokoschka]]]]
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Apsley Cherry-Garrard]], English polar explorer with the [[Terra Nova expedition]] and author of [[The Worst Journey in the World]] 
* January 2 &ndash; [[Florence Lawrence]], Canadian-born American actress (d. [[1938]])
* January 2 &ndash; [[Elise Ottesen-Jensen]], Norwegian-Swedish feminist (d. 1973)
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Markus Reiner]], Israeli scientist (d. [[1976]])
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Amedeo Maiuri]], Italian archaeologist (d. [[1963]])
* [[January 11]]
** [[George Zucco]], English–born American character actor (d. [[1960]])
** [[Chester Conklin]], American actor (d. [[1971]])
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Sophie Tucker]], Russian-born American singer, comedian (d. [[1966]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Hugh Lofting]], English-born American author (d. [[1947]])
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Joe Masseria]], Italian-born American gangster (d. [[1931]])
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Furtwängler]], German conductor (d. [[1954]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Frank Nitti]], Italian-born American gangster (d. [[1943]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Hidetsugu Yagi]], Japanese electrical engineer (d. [[1976]])
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Alfonso López Pumarejo]],  14th and 16th President of Colombia (d. [[1959]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Frank Lloyd]], English-born American film director, scriptwriter and producer (d. [[1960]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Edward Sheldon]], American playwright (d. [[1946]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Yehezkel Abramsky]], Russian-born British rabbi (d. [[1976]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Charlie Ruggles]], American actor (d. [[1970]])
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Edwin Maxwell (actor)|Edwin Maxwell]], Irish actor (d. [[1948]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Margarita Fischer]], American silent film actress (d. [[1975]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Aeneas Francon Williams]], English missionary, Church of Scotland minister, writer and poet (d. [[1971]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[José Abad Santos]], Filipino jurist, lawyer (d. [[1942]])
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Oskar Kokoschka]], Austrian artist and poet (d. [[1980]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Hugo Black]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1971]])

=== March–April ===
[[File:Switalski K.jpg|thumbnail|110px|[[Kazimierz Świtalski]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-E05367A, Johann von Daranyi.jpg|thumbnail|110px|[[Kálmán Darányi]]]]
[[File:Margaret Woodrow Wilson 1912.jpg|thumbnail|110px|[[Margaret Woodrow Wilson]]]]
* [[March 2]]
** [[Willis H. O'Brien]], American [[stop motion]] animator (d. [[1962]])
** [[Vittorio Pozzo]], Italian football player and manager (d. [[1968]])
** [[Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg]], German general (d. [[1974]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Kazimierz Świtalski]], Polish diplomat, politician, soldier and military officer, 18th [[Prime Minister of Poland]] (d. [[1962]])
* [[March 6]]
** [[Saburō Kurusu]], Japanese diplomat (d. [[1954]])
** [[Nella Walker]], American actress, vaudevillian (d. [[1971]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Virginia Pearson]], American silent film actress (d. [[1958]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Edward Calvin Kendall]], American chemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1972]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Robert L. Eichelberger]], American general (d. [[1961]])
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[Edward Rydz-Śmigły]], Polish politician, [[Marshal of Poland]] (d. [[1941]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Sergey 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 19]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Mario Bellanca]], Italian-born American airplane designer, manufacturer (d. [[1960]])
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Murder of Grace Brown|Grace Brown]], American murder victim whose story became a famous court case (d. [[1906]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Kálmán Darányi]], 31st Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[1939]])
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Edward Weston]], American photographer (d. [[1958]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople]] (d. [[1972]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]], German architect (d. [[1969]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[William R. Munroe]], American admiral (d. [[1966]])
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Gustavo Jiménez]], President of Peru (d. [[1933]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Ernst Robert Curtius]], Alsatian philologist (d. [[1956]])
* [[April 16]]
** [[Ernst Thälmann]], German Communist leader (d. [[1944]])
** [[Margaret Woodrow Wilson]], American singer; [[Woodrow Wilson|Presidential]] daughter (d. [[1944]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Ma Rainey]], American singer (d. [[1939]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Dick Elliott]], American actor (d. [[1961]])

=== May–June ===
[[File:Alfonso XIIIdeEspaña.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Alfonso XIII of Spain]]]]
[[File:Al Jolson - publicity.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Al Jolson]]]]
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Gottfried Benn]], German poet (d. [[1956]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Marcel Dupré]], French composer (d. [[1971]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Émile Eddé]], 4th Prime Minister and 3rd President of Lebanon (d. [[1949]])
* [[May 10]]
** [[Karl Barth]], Swiss [[Protestant]] [[theologian]] (d. [[1968]])
** [[Felix Manalo]], Filipino Executive Minister (''Tagapamahalang Pangkalahatan'') of the {{Lang|tl|[[Iglesia ni Cristo]]}} (d. [[1963]])
** [[Olaf Stapledon]], British author, philosopher (d. [[1950]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; King [[Alfonso XIII of Spain]] (d. [[1941]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Ture Nerman]], Swedish communist leader (d. [[1969]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever]], American-born British businessman (d. [[1971]])
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Al Jolson]], American entertainer (d. [[1950]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[William A. Glassford]], American admiral (d. [[1958]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CglnbGFzc2ZvcmQSB3dpbGxpYW0-/|website=ANC Explorer|title=Glassford, William Alexander|accessdate=February 4, 2022}}</ref>
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Henri Coandă]], Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. [[1972]])
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Kosaku Yamada]], Japanese composer, conductor (d. [[1965]])
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[George Mallory]], English climber (d. [[1924]])
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Olaf M. Hustvedt]], American admiral (d. [[1978]])
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Ion Gigurtu]], 42nd Prime Minister of Romania (d. [[1959]])
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[Henry H. Arnold]], American general, aviation pioneer (d. [[1950]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Hitoshi Imamura]], Japanese general (d. [[1968]])
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Robert Schuman]], German-French politician, a [[Founding fathers of the European Union|founding father of the European Union]] (d. [[1963]])

=== July–August ===
[[File:Willem Drees 1958.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Willem Drees]]]]
[[File:Walter Hermann Schottky (1886-1976).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Walter H. Schottky]]]]
* [[July 3]]
** [[Giovanni Battista Caproni]], Italian aeronautical, civil, and electrical engineer, aircraft designer, and industrialist (d. [[1957]])
** [[Raymond A. Spruance]], American admiral, ambassador (d. [[1969]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Willem Drees]], Dutch politician and historian, 30th [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (d. [[1988]])
* [[July 6]]  &ndash; [[Lou Skuce]], Canadian cartoonist (d. [[1951]])
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Jean Hersholt]], Danish-born American actor (d. [[1956]])
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[William Edmunds (actor)|William Edmunds]], Italian stage, screen character actor (d. [[1981]])
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.]], American general (d. [[1945]])
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[Walter H. Schottky]], German physicist (d. [[1976]])
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Jun'ichirō Tanizaki]], Japanese writer (d. [[1965]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Bror von Blixen-Finecke]], Swedish big-game hunter (d. [[1946]])
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Fred Quimby]], American film producer (d. 1965)
* [[August 2]] &ndash; [[John Alexander Douglas McCurdy]], Canadian aviation pioneer, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. [[1961]])
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Inez Milholland]], American suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent and public speaker (d. [[1916]])
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Campbell Tait]], British admiral and Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d. [[1946]])
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Paul Tillich]], German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, theologian (d. [[1965]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Ceferino Namuncurá]], Argentine [[Roman Catholic]] lay brother and blessed (d. [[1905]])
* [[August 27]]
** [[Nicolette Bruining]], Dutch theologian, humanitarian (d. [[1963]])
** [[Rebecca Clarke (composer)|Rebecca Clarke]], English composer, violist (d. [[1979]])
** [[Eric Coates]], English composer (d. [[1957]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Andrew Higgins]], American boatbuilder, industrialist (d. [[1952]])

=== September–October ===
[[File:Robertomortiz.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Roberto María Ortiz]]]]
[[File:Archibald Vivian Hill.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Archibald Hill]]]]
[[File:Ben Gurion 1959.jpg|thumb|110px|[[David Ben-Gurion]]]]
* [[September 1]] 
** [[Tarsila do Amaral]], Brazilian modernist painter (d. [[1973]])
** [[Othmar Schoeck]], Swiss composer (d. [[1957]])
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Nell Brinkley]], American illustrator, comic artist (d. [[1944]])
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Siegfried Sassoon]], British poet (d. [[1967]])
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Khaled Chehab]], 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. [[1978]])
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Robert Robinson (organic chemist)|Robert Robinson]], British chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1975]])
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Jan Masaryk]], Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (d. [[1948]])
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Jean Arp]], Alsatian sculptor, painter and poet (d. [[1966]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Charles Williams (British writer)|Charles Williams]], English novelist, playwright, poet, theologian and critic (d. [[1945]])
* [[September 24]]
** [[Edward Bach]], English metaphysician, homeopath (d. [[1936]])
** [[Roberto María Ortiz]], [[President of Argentina]] (d. [[1942]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Nobutake Kondō]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1953]])
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Archibald Hill]], English physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1977]])
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Alain-Fournier]], French writer (killed in action [[1914]])
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Edwin Fischer]], Swiss pianist, conductor (d. [[1960]])
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Conrad Helfrich]], Dutch admiral (d. [[1962]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Jonas H. Ingram]], American admiral (d. [[1952]])
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[David Ben-Gurion]], Polish-born first [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (d. [[1973]])
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Spring Byington]], American actress (d. [[1971]])
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Oscar Griswold]], American general (d. [[1959]])
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Zoë Akins]], American playwright, poet and author (d. [[1958]])

=== November–December ===
[[File:Ali Al-Ayoubi.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi]]]]
[[File:Diego Rivera with a xoloitzcuintle dog in the Blue House, Coyoacan - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Diego Rivera]]]]
[[File:1913 Ty Cobb portrait photo.png|thumb|110px|[[Ty Cobb]]]]
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Hermann Broch]], Austrian author (d. [[1951]])
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Gheorghe Tătărescu]], 2-time prime minister of Romania (d. [[1957]])
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[André Marty]], [[French Communist Party]] leader (d. [[1956]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Ed Wynn]], American actor (d. [[1966]])
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Walden L. Ainsworth]], American admiral (d. [[1960]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi]], 11th [[Prime Minister of Iraq]] (d. [[1969]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera]], Spanish prince, military aviator (d. [[1975]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[René Guénon]], French-Egyptian author (d. [[1951]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Walter Terence Stace]], British philosopher (d. [[1967]])
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Ferenc Münnich]], 47th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[1967]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Karl von Frisch]], Austrian zoologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1982]])
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Margaret C. Anderson]], American publisher, editor (d. [[1973]])
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Lester P. Barlow]], American inventor and engineer (d. [[1967]])
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Manne Siegbahn]], Swedish physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1978]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Rose Wilder Lane]], American author (d. [[1968]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Diego Rivera]], Mexican painter (d. [[1957]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Victor McLaglen]], English actor, boxer (d. [[1959]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Owen Moore]], Irish-born American actor (d. [[1939]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Ty Cobb]], American baseball player and a member of the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]] (d. [[1961]])
* [[December 25]]
**[[Gotthard Heinrici]], German general (d. [[1971]])
**[[Kid Ory]], American jazz musician (d. [[1973]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Gyula Gömbös]], 30th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[1936]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Austin Osman Spare]], English artist, magician (d. [[1956]])

===Unknown===
* [[Cola Nicea]], Aromanian soldier (d. unknown)<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332515797|title=The memoirs of Cola Nicea: a case-study on the discursive identity construction of the Aromanian armatoles in early 20th century Macedonia|first=Vladimir|last=Crețulescu|journal=Res Historica|volume=41|year=2016|page=126|doi=10.17951/rh.2016.41.125|doi-access=free}}</ref>

== Deaths ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:Emily Dickinson daguerreotype (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|[[Emily Dickinson]]]]
[[File:Ludwig II of Bavaria.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ludwig II of Bavaria]]]]
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Amilcare Ponchielli]], Italian composer (b. [[1834]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Gammond | first = Peter | title = Classical composers | publisher = CLB Pub | location = Surrey England | year = 1995 | isbn = 9781858334141 | page=129}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Baldassare Verazzi]], Italian painter (b. [[1819]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[David Rice Atchison]], American politician (b. [[1807]])
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Winfield Scott Hancock]], Union general of the American Civil War, Democratic political candidate (b. [[1824]])
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Laura Don]], American actress (b. [[1852]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash;  [[Horatio Seymour]], [[List of Governors of New York|18th]] [[Governor of New York]], [[1868 United States presidential election|1868]] [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] presidential nominee (b. [[1810]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell]], British politician (b. [[1813]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Dave Rudabaugh]], American outlaw, gunfighter (b. [[1854]])
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Hugh Stowell Brown]], [[Manx people|Manx]] preacher (b. [[1823]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[William S. Clark]], American chemist (b. [[1826]])
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Pierre-Jules Hetzel]], French editor, publisher (b. [[1814]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Joseph Victor von Scheffel]], German poet (b. [[1826]])
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Andrew Nicholl]], Northern Irish painter (b. [[1804]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Louis Melsens]], Belgian chemist and physicist (b. [[1814]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Henry Hobson Richardson]], American architect (b. [[1838]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Facundo Bacardí]], Cuban rum manufacturer (b. [[1814]])
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Emily Dickinson]], American poet (b. [[1830]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Dickinson | first = Emily | title = Emily Dickinson's open folios: scenes of reading, surfaces of writing | publisher = University of Michigan Press | location = Ann Arbor | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780472105861 | page=42}}</ref>
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[John Deere (inventor)|John Deere]], American inventor (b. [[1804]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Leopold von Ranke]], German historian (b. [[1795]])
* [[June 13]] 
** [[Bernhard von Gudden]], German neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (b. [[1824]])
** King [[Ludwig II of Bavaria]] (b. [[1845]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Sir Charles Trevelyan]], British civil servant and colonial administrator (b. [[1807]])
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Daniel Dunglas Home]], Scottish medium (b. [[1833]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:Ary Scheffer - Franz Liszt.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Franz Liszt]]]]
[[File:Elisa Lynch official portrait.jpg|thumb|right|120px|[[Eliza Lynch]]]]
[[File:Chester A. Arthur by Abraham Bogardus.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Chester A. Arthur]]]]
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich]], German geologist (b. [[1806]])
* [[July 4]]
** [[Poundmaker]], Aboriginal Canadian leader (b. c. [[1842]])
** [[Prince Arisugawa Takahito]], Japanese Prince (b. [[1813]])
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Ned Buntline]] (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), American publisher, dime novelist and publicist (b. [[1821]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Eliza Lynch]], First Lady of Paraguay (b. [[1833]])
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Franz Liszt]], Hungarian pianist, composer (b. [[1811]])
* [[August 4]] &ndash; [[Samuel J. Tilden]], [[List of Governors of New York|25th]] [[Governor of New York]], [[1876 United States presidential election|1876]] [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] presidential nominee (b. [[1814]])
* [[August 9]]
** [[Samuel Ferguson|Sir Samuel Ferguson]], Northern Irish poet, artist (b. [[1810]])
** [[Bill Smith (outfielder)|Bill Smith]], [[Major League Baseball]] player (b. [[1865]])
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Lydia Koidula]], Estonian poet (b. [[1843]])
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Ramakrishna Paramhansa]], Indian spiritual figure (b. [[1836]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Ferris Jacobs Jr.]], American politician (b. [[1836]])
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[William W. Snow]], American politician (b. [[1812]])
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Benjamin F. Cheatham]], Confederate general (b. [[1820]])
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard]], American land speculator (b. [[1802]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Hannah T. King]], British-born American writer and pioneer (b. [[1808]])
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Edward William Godwin]], English architect (b. [[1833]])
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Austin F. Pike]], American politician from New Hampshire (b. [[1819]])
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Jean-Jacques Uhrich]], French general (b. [[1802]])
*[[October 10]] &ndash; [[David Levy Yulee]], American politician, US Senator from Florida (b. [[1810]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[James Martin (premier)|Sir James Martin]], 4th Premier of New South Wales (b. [[1820]])
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Chester A. Arthur]], 21st [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1829]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[William Bliss Baker]], American painter (b. [[1859]])
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Charles Francis Adams Sr.]], American historical editor, politician and diplomat (b. [[1807]])
* [[December 8]]
** [[Isaac Lea]], American conchologist, geologist and publisher (b. [[1792]])
** [[William Fraser Tolmie]], Scottish-Canadian scientist, politician (b. [[1812]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Josef Drásal]], the tallest Czech (b. [[1841]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[John A. Logan]], American soldier, political leader (b. [[1826]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Harriet Bates]], American author (b. [[1856]])

== References ==
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